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Meeting Details

2:00pm Pacific Time (21:00 UTC) on Tuesdays
- (5PM Eastern US, 11PM Oslo, 6AM (Wed) Seoul, 7AM (Wed) Melbourne)
Location: Tel: 866 705 2554 (us), 913 227 1201 (int’l)
- Passcode: 914008
Duration: 60 minutes
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Next meeting's Agenda Items:

More GC discussion - jemalloc+gc proposal
- semi-precise GC
- shared heap space with malloced memory
- threadsafety, even with write barriers
- at the (probable?) cost of DRC
(Andreas) SSE2 calling conventions. SSE2-only JIT?

1st July 2008

Attendees

Adobe: Scott, Steven, Edwin, Jeff, Dan, Mason, Vladimir
Intel: Moh, Carmen, Jungwoo, Shengnan
Mozilla: Brendan, Jordan, Andreas, Rob, Jason, Aaron, Ben, Joel, Jacob, Dave M., Dave A.

(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...
(Jim)TC->TT MMgc integration.