On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:

Plugins:

Upgrade LargeIntegersPlugin to v2.0

LargeInteger primitives now deal with 32-bits digits.  No change to image code.

Memory is 8 bytes aligned on Spur. When storing 32/64 bits large

integers values, allways fill the eight bytes whatever the

effectivily used size, rather than bother with dissertion of size.

Generate integer type checking as C macros rather than direct/indirect

interpreterProxy function call in plugins. This, and 32-bit accessing mean

singificantly faster large integer arithmetic.

Awesome!

The legs are in the architecture endianness?

What are the reasons to not use GMP? Could we use it if was already installed in the host platform? It seems to me that it would be quite straight forward to call to the GMP low-level API from the LargeIntegersPlugin, without making any changes in the image. https://gmplib.org/manual/Low_002dlevel-Functions.html