On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 07:00:20PM -0700, Ned Konz wrote:
> On Monday 28 June 2004 6:10 pm, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > Second, I see some discussion of LargeInteger plugins.  That might
> > make my operations go much faster.  Are those builtin by default?  I
> > don't see anything in /usr/lib/squeak, even for the 3.6 Debianized vm
> > that I got, I think, from Ned Konz.  Would such a plugin help?  How do
> > I get or build it?  How do I know if I'm already using it?
> 
> do print-it's on:
> 
> Smalltalk listBuiltinModules  
> 	#()
> Smalltalk listLoadedModules  
> 	#('SoundPlugin 26 March 2004 (e)' 'ZipPlugin 26 March 2004 (e)' 'SocketPlugin 
> 26 March 2004 (e)' 'LargeIntegers v1.2 26 March 2004 (e)' 'B2DPlugin 26 March 
> 2004 (e)' 'FT2Plugin 26 March 2004 (e)' 'BitBltPlugin 26 March 2004 (e)' 
> 'SecurityPlugin 26 March 2004 (e)' 'FilePlugin 26 March 2004 (e)' 
> 'MiscPrimitivePlugin 26 March 2004 (e)')
> 

LargeIntegers is listed as a built in module, but not a loaded
module.  From the comments on the methods, this appears to mean the
plugin is not active.

Unfortunately, after hunting around the image and the swiki, I can not
find how to activate the plugin/module in squeak.  There's a lot of
info on how to make them, but I don't see much on how to use them!
I'd appreciate any assistance.

For reference:

Smalltalk listBuiltinModules #('ADPCMCodecPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'AsynchFilePlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'BMPReadWriterPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'B2DPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'BitBltPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'DSAPrims 26 January 2004 (i)' 'ZipPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'DropPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'SqueakFFIPrims 26 January 2004 (i)' 'FFTPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'FileCopyPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'FilePlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'FloatArrayPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'GeniePlugin v2.0 26 January 2004 (i)' 'JPEGReadWriter2Plugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'JPEGReaderPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'JoystickTabletPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'Klatt 26 January 2004 (i)' 'LargeIntegers v1.2 26 January 2004 (i)' 'MIDIPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'Matrix2x3Plugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'MiscPrimitivePlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'Mpeg3Plugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'RePlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'SerialPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'SocketPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'SoundCodecPrims 26 January 2004 (i)' 'SoundGenerationPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'SoundPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'StarSqueakPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'SurfacePlugin Feb 10 2004 (i)')

Smalltalk listLoadedModules #('FloatArrayPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'B2DPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'LargeIntegers v1.2 26 January 2004 (i)' 'BitBltPlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'FilePlugin 26 January 2004 (i)' 'MiscPrimitivePlugin 26 January 2004 (i)')