SassyIsDogSlow

See ticket:122 for some numbers that document this problem, and also suggest three likely components of the problem:

• some important optimizations are not yet implemented for the IA32, causing the compiler and assembler to allocate much more heap storage than on the Sparc;
• the Sassy assembler probably allocates much more storage than the Sparc assembler anyway;
• something is probably screwed up; for example, some parts of the compiler and assembler may be running as interpreted code on the IA32 version.