Mozilla2/November-Agenda

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Tuesday November 13

930 - Summary of in-progress work

1000 - brainstorm - wild and wacky ideas

1100 - outparamdel - limitations and possibilities

  • potential wins
  • limitations if no xpconnect is involved (only rewrite pseduo-COM)
  • limitations if xpconnect is involved, but we don't hack exceptions
  • exception handling?

1230 - lunch

1400 - trace-based optimizations - time tentative, need brendan and... understanding the ActionMonkey plan for bytecode and JIT

1600 - XPCOMGC problems

  • auditing destructors for correct finalization behavior
  • pervasive finalization for strings and other non-GC objects... strings!

1700 - weekly tamarin status call

Wednesday November 14

1000 - CAPS, security wrappers, and fast-path "DOM" (xpconnect)

  • limitations and/or usefulness of LLVM
  • identifying the principal of an object

1130 - Strings in Mozilla2

  • Can they be GCed?
  • Use of UTF16, UCS2, and UTF8
  • C++ standard string classes?

1200 - Mobile

  • Supporting embedders
  • reducing footprint

Additional items and schedule TBD