g77 performance on ALPHA

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 37C849AA.E727F5B5@moene.indiv.nluug.nl >you write:
  > However, you should realize that rerunning loop optimization is a
  > cop-out I thought up three years ago when giv-finding and -reducing in
  > loop.c was far less sophisticated than it is now [due to your own and
  > Joern's work].  It might simply be counterproductive at these modern
  > times ...
Last I checked rerunning loops opts was still useful for my "favorite
architecture".

jeff