AMD64

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

duncan.coutts:
> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 15:45, scott west wrote:
> > I'd settle for unregisterised... it seems every time I run through the 
> > whole port process I see to do some new wrong thing each time, hehe. I'm 
> > really just in search of a working ghc implementation for my amd64, 
> > registered or not (the main difference is the use of architecture 
> > specific registers and thus performance right?).
> 
> Some ghc nomenclature: unregistered means "half as fast as you'd like it
> to be".
> 
> If you're after performance (rather than simply working), you'll need to
> wait for a registered build, or if you've got the assembler hacking
> skills you can help out.

However, unregisterised amd64 is still as fast as my 2.4Ghz P4
registerised.