Aug 12th 2008

Attendees

• intel: moh, carmen, shengnan, jungwoo
• mozilla: dave, andreas, brendan
• adobe: mason, edwin s, steven, vlad, scott, dan, thomas

Updates

• (David)
  • Explicit memory allocation
    • Just made a quick patch on this. This has also been discussed in previous meetings. Plan is to commit the patch by next week.
• (Mason)
  • Progress on x86 Forth representation.
    • Trying to get rid of the interpreter dispatch loop. Has a basic version up now with 20% increase in speed in TT. Hopes to have more test results by end of week.
• (Moh)
  • Update on Jungwoo's results with parallel JITing in TT.
    • Jungwoo has working now in TT. More work still needs to be done.
    • Core-2 Duo is dual core, Silverthorne (Atom) is hyper-threaded.
  • vprof is in TT. You can use it for value profiling. Extensions and more capabilities are underway.
    • Ed has also ported this to alternative platforms. Ed also worked on a timer to help see transitions for various components. Moh has also worked on some of the timers.
  • Improving InlineHashTable. Good speedup observed on Win32. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449886
    • Looking at 64bitHashTable as well.
• (Steven)
  • Taking fixes from Flash Player / TC and getting these integrated into the mainline. May have to submit as multiple patches depending on how the check-in goes.
• (Ed)
  • Will be doing reviews of the reviews: VTune patch, etc. Thanks to those who put those in while he was out.
• (Mark)
  • Waiting to hear on GlobalObjects issue with TC- any progress? Someone on Adobe side is looking into this (Tom Harwood), but might take a bit of time to review.