GMP performance

[Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>]

Hi,

One immediate advantage of GMP kernel that I see is on 64bit
platforms, on which so far ( with an exception of Alpha ) only
portable kernel existed.  I compared GMP/portable kernel with regular
portable on 64bit HPUX/HPPA, and I saw 20% performance improvement.
It is a noticeable improvement, but I guess I kinda expected more.
Was it unreasonable of me?

Thanks

Igor