Hi,
Thanks Nicolas. I will try anytime soon (Wednesday at worst) to regenerate the code.
About MiscPlugin...
I have set-up a project with my student for next semester (January-May). The idea is to:
1) Port Misc to standard plugin architecture.
2) Evaluate the performance of specific primitives in JIT intrinsic (I mean rewritten like SmallInteger>>#+ in the JIT), especially findSubString and compareString, both with standard instructions of Cog's RTL and with SSE4.2 string instructions.
3) Based on evaluation, consider to move 1 or 2 primitives from plugin to core VM primitives and add the intrinsic version in production.
I did 3 steps so the project is interesting and allows to work with different part of the VM, but I think only 1) is guaranteed to be done with the student level. I expect therefore the Misc problem to be solved by the end of March (If my student don't do it I will do it).
If you want to collaborate on this at a rate of one ~15 min skype meeting per month please tell me, I will introduce you to the student (we're all French speakers).
By the way, I think the new Misc should be renamed ByteObjectPlugin since this is about ByteString & ByteArray (hash, comparison, indexOf:, findSubString, ...) and BitMap (compression/decompression). What do you think ?