8th January 2008

Attendees

• Tom
• Steven
• Ben
• Jason
• Brent
• Erik
• Edwin
• Jeff
• Rick
• Marsha
• Moh
• Mark
• Brendan

Announcements

• Tamarin summit February 1st at Adobe – SF

Updates

Moh

• Escalated release of vtune
• Runtime dll added to standard release of vtune
• Need contact person at mozilla, expert in licensing, as a contact. Suggest Brendan.
• Name of dll and header
• Release team of VTune in Russia. Via vtune update.
• Analyzer/bin/Jitpi.dll

Marsha

• additional modification of source code
• release debugger build of tamarin
• variable overhead sometimes as high ~50%, reduced to ~20%, but wondering if someone can help reduce the overhead
• Tom and Edwin have volunteered
• Open bug and post patch for Tom and Edwin to see

Mark

• chess app should be up and running
• brent owns it for now

Edwin

• optimistic binding pending for TT
• about 30% are running as fast for TC
• Rick: is comparision fair (e.g. sse on or off in TC)
• 5% to 25% in jitted code
• make better by calling helper less of ten
• Brendan: how can we help; maybe with bugs
• Bugs are being moved into bugzilla so take a look

Steven

• linux build of TT in process; could use help
• hopefully have something working in a day or two

Benjamin

• question about strings
• bug about Utf8 and Utf16
• mozilla might want to share string class with tamarin
• BE: might want to share interface rather than implementation
• BE: Utf8 is generally a win
• ES: we might consider an implementation that allows multiple encodings