Progress! I got IonPower past the point PPCBC ran aground at -- it can now jump in and out of Baseline and Ion code on PowerPC without crashing or asserting. That's already worth celebrating, but as the judge who gave me the restraining order on behalf of Scarlett Johansson remarked, I always have to push it. So I tried our iterative

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