CMM-to-ASM: Register allocation wierdness

[Dominic Steinitz]

>  Hi, I am implementing unicode normalization in Haskell. I
> challenged myself to match the performance with the best C/C++
> implementation, the best being the ICU library. I am almost there,
> beating it in one of the benchmarks and within 30% for others. I am
> out of all application level tricks that I could think of and now
> need help from the compiler.

I can't answer your question but I am very happy that someone is
looking at performance issues.

I am sad that no-one has responded.

More generally, is there a story around what is happening to improve
performance?

Dominic.