cool! I hope I have more energy tomorrow so I can look into it and put on fix 
to include :)

On 2013-07-08, at 22:49, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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