loop optimizations, mark 12[a]

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 19980706091616.A12625@dot.cygnus.com >you write:
  > On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 09:50:50AM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > > Could be a double alignment issue -- I did run them multiple times and th
  > e
  > > triggering module was main000.f, which seemed a little weird since twldrv
  > > and fppp are the known hog routines.
  > 
  > Nope.  You probably didn't get to my message to egcs that showed the
  > half-speed regression from 980506 to 980702 on Alpha as well.   I'm
  > just now getting around to checking out old versions to see what's
  > changed in the output.
Nope.  I believe I was at 30000ft when I wrote that message and thus
it drained when I returned to SLC last night and plugged back into
my home net -- before I read email.

Odd as I thought I'd done the test correctly -- ie test without the
patch, apply the patch and retest.

jeff