...in http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3268/

CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.1088/r3268

Squeak 5.0 release candidate.

Speed up normalize methods in LargeIntegersPlugin
by cacheing result of firstIndexableField.

Simplify integer conversion routines by adding byteSizeOfBytes: which assumes
argument is byte indexable (as LargeIntegers are).�� Make sure integer conversion
routines consistently answer 0 on failure.�� Use 4-byte access where possible.

Remove use of popInteger in AsFloat and integer comparison primitives (popStack
idiom is inefficient since multiplke writes as opposed to the single write in
the pop:thenPush: idiom).

Revise SpurMemoryManager>>isClassOfNonImm:equalTo:compactClassIndex: for
better dead code elimination.
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best,
Eliot