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'''Meeting Details'''
'''Meeting Details (Changed as of 11/18/08)'''
* 2:00pm Pacific Time (21:00 UTC) on Tuesdays
* 10:00 AM Pacific Time (18:00 UTC) on Tuesdays
** (5PM Eastern US, 11PM Oslo, 6AM (Wed) Seoul, 7AM (Wed) Melbourne)
** 1PM Eastern US, 7PM Oslo, 3AM (Wed) Seoul, 5AM (Wed) Melbourne  
* Location: Tel: 866 705 2554 (us), 913 227 1201 (int’l)
* Location: Tel: 877-220-5439 (US & Canada), +1-408-536-9900(International)
** Passcode: 914008
** Meeting Place ID: 2000
* Duration: 60 minutes
* join irc.mozilla.org #tamarin for attendance taking and questions
* join irc.mozilla.org #tamarin for attendence taking and questions


'''Next meeting's Agenda Items:'''


* More GC discussion - jemalloc+gc proposal
'''Next meeting's Agenda Items (3/17/09):'''
** semi-precise GC
* Canceled
** shared heap space with malloced memory
** threadsafety, even with write barriers
** at the (probable?) cost of DRC
*(Andreas) SSE2 calling conventions. SSE2-only JIT?
*(Jungwoo)
** Update on parallel JIT'ing in TT.
** Headsup on Moh's vectorization of hot search loop of MMgc::PinStackObjects  using SSE2. Both Sunspider's string benchmarks (string-fasta & string-validate-input) show 8+% speedup.


= 1st July 2008 =


= January 27, 2009 Meeting Notes =
== Attendees ==
== Attendees ==
Jeff,  Steven, Brent, Tom, Dan Schaffer, Rick Reitmaier, Rob Winchell, Moh
== Agenda Topics ==
* Status Updates
== Meeting Discussion Notes ==
=== Status Updates ===
Jeff:
* Checked in a verifier refactoring. Some cleanup needed, but wanted to get it in.
* Put in a pipeline architecture where all code generators are driven off of api (similar to backend nanojit api)
Steven
* Spot bug fixing


*Adobe: Scott, Steven, Edwin, Jeff, Dan, Mason, Vladimir
Dan Schaffer
*Intel: Moh, Carmen, Jungwoo, Shengnan
* Ecma 3 data acceptance tests
*Mozilla: Brendan, Jordan, Andreas, Rob, Jason, Aaron, Ben, Joel, Jacob, Dave M., Dave A.
* If anyone sees any failures, send Dan Schaffer an email
* There may still be some lurking problems


== Updates ==
Tom Harwood
* Global optimizer stopped working on this for now
* Starting to work on verifier and code generators instead
* Jeff’s change broke GO code
* Tom filed a bug on that. Copy Jeff on that but.


*(Dave M) Introduce Joel Galenson,
** Joel will be an intern working through August
** regexp tracing (generating method IL on the fly, fast access to string chars)
*(David A + Andreas) Explicit field initialization in constructors?
*(Andreas) Reorganize Interpreter.h/cpp? TraceMonitor/TraceRecorder split?
*(Andreas) Register allocator discussion (loop-spanning register use, tree-spanning register use.)
*(Moh) 13% performance for 13% size increase: space/speed tradeoff in configuring TT: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442804
*(Jungwoo) Protection problem in Windows 2003 Server: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442961
*(Ed) Adobe to have sandbox available for everyone to push to prior to the final repository
** How do we do this?  When is the right time to do this? TBD...


= Older meetings =
= Older meetings =
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2009-01-27|January 27, 2009]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2009-01-013|January 13, 2009]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2009-01-06|January 6, 2009]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-12-16|December 16, 2008]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-12-09|December 9, 2008]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-12-03|December 3, 2008]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-11-18|November 18, 2008]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-11-11|November 11, 2008]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-09-30|September 30, 2008]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-08-26|August 26, 2008]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-08-12|August 12, 2008]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-07-22|July 22, 2008]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-07-15|July 15, 2008]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-07-01|July 1, 2008]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-07-01|July 1, 2008]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-06-24|June 24, 2008]]
* [[Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-06-24|June 24, 2008]]

Latest revision as of 00:52, 17 March 2009

These updates concern Tamarin and related projects only.

Meeting Details (Changed as of 11/18/08)

  • 10:00 AM Pacific Time (18:00 UTC) on Tuesdays
    • 1PM Eastern US, 7PM Oslo, 3AM (Wed) Seoul, 5AM (Wed) Melbourne
  • Location: Tel: 877-220-5439 (US & Canada), +1-408-536-9900(International)
    • Meeting Place ID: 2000
  • join irc.mozilla.org #tamarin for attendance taking and questions


Next meeting's Agenda Items (3/17/09):

  • Canceled



January 27, 2009 Meeting Notes

Attendees

Jeff, Steven, Brent, Tom, Dan Schaffer, Rick Reitmaier, Rob Winchell, Moh

Agenda Topics

  • Status Updates

Meeting Discussion Notes

Status Updates

Jeff:

  • Checked in a verifier refactoring. Some cleanup needed, but wanted to get it in.
  • Put in a pipeline architecture where all code generators are driven off of api (similar to backend nanojit api)


Steven

  • Spot bug fixing

Dan Schaffer

  • Ecma 3 data acceptance tests
  • If anyone sees any failures, send Dan Schaffer an email
  • There may still be some lurking problems

Tom Harwood

  • Global optimizer stopped working on this for now
  • Starting to work on verifier and code generators instead
  • Jeff’s change broke GO code
  • Tom filed a bug on that. Copy Jeff on that but.


Older meetings