> Alan,
> after a very short look into ..
> alangrimes at starpower.net wrote:
> > --------  
> > 
> > I was mucking about on my development image with my WORKHORSE VM, 
> > (IIRC,
> > compiled from CVS source and clean 3.7) 
> > 
> > The only noteworthy change to the image was that I had removed most 
> > of
> 
> > the bit-manipulation methods from LargePositiveInteger. 
> 
> , just a thought: Have you removed >>hashMultiply there? This could 
> be
> dangerous, since it will be used by some >>hash methods...

Nope....

Basically I plan to make the core VM have only two basic data types, 
the byte array and the short int.. Everything else is compound... 
Accelerator plugins such as the LargeIntegerPlugin should be first in 
line to take the large integer calls... 

Anyway.