Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2007-12-04

4th December 2007

Moh

• Basic call graph working.
  • Business dev preso, open up vtune. Went well.
  • Licensing support. Team would have to commit to support.
  • Also want to know how does newer perf tools relate to vtune?

Marcia

• Wants more JS speed tests
• Object array. Unshift bug needs to be filed
• A lot of time spend in GC. Not sure how that compares to other engines

Seo

• Currently working on translating MSIL exception handling to ABC
  • necessary to support Iron* runtime (?)
• Goal: C# "hello world" to MSIL to ABC

Steven

• Has patch for review by Edwin. A grab-bag of FP changes, maybe 12 bug fixes

Jason

• Running Tamarin tests on Mac results in six failures. Not clear what the

cause is

• Wants to land mmgc thread safe this week. Will post an updated patch.

Mark H

• State management working properly.
• Summary of global object issue
  • AS3 has one global object per ABC.
  • This is not how the browser work.
  • [Ed] Use façade as a clearing house for various binding
  • ESC should be able define a façade with modification of Tamarin
  • This is TBD

Discussion

• Moh/Marcia: is there any performance documentation or benchmarks?
• Tommy: UCI team has ported JavaGrande to Tamarin
• UPDATE from Brendan: UCI JavaGrande port is in a public svn now
• Ed: short running test are our focus
• Jeff: it would be interesting to profile ESC

• Benjamin: MMGC question about back references. <sorry had to leave the room>