[m-rev.] Added meeting minutes for 12/11/01
Ralph Becket
rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Tue Nov 13 12:17:18 AEDT 2001
Estimated hours taken: 0.25
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+<pre>
+We had a meeting of the Mercury group on Monday, 12 November 2001.
+
+Attendees:
+ Zoltan Somogyi (zs)
+ David Overton (dmo)
+ Simon Taylor (stayl)
+ Ralph Becket (rafe)
+ Mark Brown (dougl)
+
+Progress reports
+
+ Ralph Becket (rafe):
+ - Contining to work on the loop invariant hoisting
+ optimization and learning the necessary compiler
+ internals.
+ - Started working on the tutorial book. A new cvs
+ module `books' has been created with a subdirectory
+ called `tutorial' which has been populated with a
+ few draft text files. Updates to this module will
+ not be reported on mercury-reviews.
+ - Has been thinking about putting together a more
+ formal specification than the reference manual of
+ the core language suitable for compiler writers.
+ The idea has received support from the group;
+ hopefully a good deal of the document can be culled
+ near directly from local dissertations.
+
+ David Overton (dmo):
+ - Has been working on the mode constraints paper.
+ - Has been working on formalizing mode declaration
+ checking.
+ - Has not had time to work on implementation this
+ week.
+
+ Mark Brown (dougl):
+ - Has been working on getting the debugger retry
+ mechanism to work for all IL types with the .NET
+ back end.
+ - Has set up an automated testing system to support
+ the above work.
+
+ Zoltan Somogyi (zs):
+ - Has finished debugging the stack slot optimization
+ and obtained some speed-ups. Performance tests were
+ still running during the meeting (seven versions of
+ the compiler with each of -O2 ... -O5!) Some
+ results have shown a 1.3% speed up and others have
+ shown a 7% reduction in stack frame size. Zoltan
+ reported that the optimization was not too costly in
+ terms of compilation time.
+ - Has been working on the stack slot optimization
+ paper which is due in this Friday.
+ - Reports that six summer students will be joining the
+ team, including Simon Mei who was with us last year.
+ It was suggested that once they are all here
+ together we give them the one-day introduction to
+ Mercury including details on how the CVS and build
+ systems work.
+
+ Simon Taylor (stayl):
+ - Has implemented unification expressions as discussed
+ in last week's meeting.
+ - Has added the option of supplying user-defined
+ operator tables to the parser.
+ - Has fixed up the handling of libraries directly from
+ mmc, adding the option of overriding settings by
+ command line switch rather than several environment
+ variables.
+
+ There was some discussion on this point, the general
+ concensus being that there needed to be a
+ simplification of the interface to the build system.
+ Simon is working on this issue.
+
+Minutes taken by Ralph Becket (rafe at cs.mu.oz.au)
+</pre>
+</html>
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