🚀 go-pugleaf

We seem to have isolated the problem and can work around it.

For the record, the compilation was being executed on a PC
but the files were on a disk mounted on a sparc-2. So the
compile was going on over the net mediated by nfs. This used
to work without a significant performance hit with the prior
version of linux (pre-ELF) and gcc. With the latest stuff,
the performance takes a nose-dive as I described, with lots
of performance lost in "as" for some reason.

Moving the files to a disk on the host doing the compile avoids the
problem. Hopefully, this gives some clues to somebody. If there
is anything I can do to characterize the problem further, I'd be
happy to. We're out of our bind for now. 

-m