"Core 2" GMPbench results

[Torbjorn Granlund]

I've had the opportunity to test GMP 4.2.1 on a new "Core 2" processor
and also run GMPbench on it.  While the machine is very zippy when
compiling things, GMPbench results are not all that great as one might
had expected from the raving reviews of this processor.  Some GMP
timing results are actually truly terrible.

GMPbench results are here: http://swox.com/gmp/gmpbench.html

One clear reason for the results is that the current mpn_add_n and
mpn_sub_n loops run terribly, at 13.5 cycles/limb.  The multiply loops
(mpn_addmul_1 and friends) run much faster, at between 4.5 and 7
cycles/limb, oddly enough.

This is the loop of mpn_add_n, which to my eye looks very innocent:

.Loop:  movq    (%rsi,%rcx,8), %rax
        movq    (%rdx,%rcx,8), %r10
        adcq    %r10, %rax
        movq    %rax, (%rdi,%rcx,8)
        incq    %rcx
        jne     .Loop

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Torbjörn