Mozilla 2/StatusMeetings/2007-12-05

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Mozilla 2 Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 19:00 UTC
• Mozilla Building S - Central Area
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #mmgc for backchannel

Updates

• ActionMonkey status: JavaScript:ActionMonkey
  • bsmedberg is generating builds for comparative perftests
• XPCOMGC status - XPCOMGC
  • It ran until shutdown under an old parent... merged AM changes and threadsafe-mmgc and regenerating the automatic patches

Round table

• Definitions
  • Moz2 - ability to break API compat
• Overall Goals
  • Improve developer productivity
  • Performance
  • Footprint
  • Security
  • Innovative web features
  • Improved embedding and mobile support
  • Building features in XUL needed by apps
  • Better Support multicore systems
• Big Tasks
  • mmGC
  • turn on exceptions
  • Remove XPCOM from critical paths
  • JIT for JS
  • Better support threading
  • GFX Improvements
  • Centralize security checks
  • Improve or remove XPConnect
    • Gen gluecode, trace-jit, or fastpath
• Smaller but important tasks
  • CSS
  • Video
  • Jail tag
  • Worker threads