Tamarin:WeeklyUpdates/2008-01-08
From MozillaWiki
8th January 2008
Attendees
- Tom
- Steven
- Ben
- Jason
- Brent
- Erik
- Edwin
- Jeff
- Rick
- Marsha
- Moh
- Mark
- Brendan
Announcements
- Tamarin summit February 1st at Adobe – SF
Updates
Moh
- Escalated release of vtune
- Runtime dll added to standard release of vtune
- Need contact person at mozilla, expert in licensing, as a contact. Suggest Brendan.
- Name of dll and header
- Release team of VTune in Russia. Via vtune update.
- Analyzer/bin/Jitpi.dll
Marsha
- additional modification of source code
- release debugger build of tamarin
- variable overhead sometimes as high ~50%, reduced to ~20%, but wondering if someone can help reduce the overhead
- Tom and Edwin have volunteered
- Open bug and post patch for Tom and Edwin to see
Mark
- chess app should be up and running
- brent owns it for now
Edwin
- optimistic binding pending for TT
- about 30% are running as fast for TC
- Rick: is comparision fair (e.g. sse on or off in TC)
- 5% to 25% in jitted code
- make better by calling helper less of ten
- Brendan: how can we help; maybe with bugs
- Bugs are being moved into bugzilla so take a look
Steven
- linux build of TT in process; could use help
- hopefully have something working in a day or two
Benjamin
- question about strings
- bug about Utf8 and Utf16
- mozilla might want to share string class with tamarin
- BE: might want to share interface rather than implementation
- BE: Utf8 is generally a win
- ES: we might consider an implementation that allows multiple encodings