This is cool.
I like first class objects!
Thanks Max.

> As promised (a very long while ago) I moved all the checksum code to a 
> dedicated hiearchy (see https://pharo.fogbugz.com/default.asp?5468). The 
> thing I'm most proud of is the CRC class which implements Ross Williams's 
> "RockSoft" parameterized CRC caculation model (http://www.ross.net/crc/).
> 
> Currently there are still two plugin primitives (used by the Compression 
> package) which I simply moved to the new Checksum hierarchy. When I 
> originally wrote the CRC class I wasn't aware of NativeBoost. Today I saw 
> that there are two methods NativeBoost offers for crc32 calculations. I don't 
> have time to look in to that but I just wanted to put the idea out there that 
> with the checksum code now all in one place, we might be able to perform all 
> checksum calculations through NB (and get rid of the ZipPlugin :) ).
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> Max


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