Hello,

Major news: NativeBoost now working on Macs!

The main problem with Mac OS platform was that it requires a stack
alignment discipline, while other platforms don't.
So, i had to extend the assembler to make sure that all external calls
will be made with properly aligned stack.

Also, i spent time to improve error handling. Since in Cog/Stack VMs
we having nice primitive error code, now it can report what caused a
failure in more detail,
than just failing a primitive and leaving a language side to guess
what gone wrong.

There's a lot of other small changes, like new tests, more examples
etc.. But i don't want to describe them all (and frankly i don't
remember all of them ;)

Things not yet working:
  The callbacks to language side is not functional (i have to revise
this code to synchronize it with callback machinery in Cog VMs).
  The callbacks to native code working well (of course, because it
don't needs to deal with VM-specific stuff ;)

The prebuilt VMs, which contain a NativeBoost plugin are now on Jenkins server.

These VMs will be built automatically each time there is code update
for Cog VMs (in same way as all continuous integration jobs).
The only difference between original Cog VMs and Cog+NativeBoost VMs
is that they contain NativeBoost plugin.
So, you can use these VMs instead of Cog VMs if you like.

You can download VMs from here:
https://ci.lille.inria.fr/pharo/view/NativeBoost/


To install NativeBoost into your image follow instructions on:
 http://code.google.com/p/nativeboost/wiki/Installation


-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.