Patch for Word64

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Matt,

Monday, November 21, 2005, 5:56:51 PM, you wrote:

M> I was doing some work with Word64 and noticed that it was about 3 times
M> slower than Int64. The reason appears to be expensive conversions from
M> Int64# to Word64# and vice versa. I modified the libraries to remove the
M> conversion overhead, and the result is that Int64# and Word64# now have
M> equal performance, at least on the domain that I tested (==, +, -).

the original code seems to be automatically generated. imho, we are
not need to touch all these code, but concentrate on eliminating cost
of conversions between these two types:

int64ToWord64# = id
word64ToInt64# = id


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