Loki's ASM on 486 before optimisation on branch2.asm (10,000 nop's)

real    0m17.930s
user    0m17.770s
sys     0m0.090s

Loki's ASM on 486 after optimisation on branch2.asm (10,000 nop's)

real    0m1.808s
user    0m1.720s
sys     0m0.090s