[m-rev.] Mercury Meeting Minutes 19 Nov 2001
Ralph Becket
rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon Nov 19 13:59:43 AEDT 2001
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+We had a meeting of the Mercury group on Monday, 19 November 2001.
+
+Attendees:
+ Zoltan Somogyi (zs)
+ Tyson Dowd (trd)
+ Ralph Becket (rafe)
+ Mark Brown (dougl)
+ David Overton (dmo)
+ Fergus Henderson (fjh)
+
+Progress reports
+
+ Zoltan Somogyi (zs):
+ - Sent in the stack-slot optimization paper on time.
+ - Benchmark results show a 1 - 1.7% speedup and a code
+ size reduction of a few per cent. Static analysis
+ shows stack frame size reductions in 20% of cases.
+ - Has been marking exam scripts.
+
+ Tyson Dowd (trd):
+ - Finishing implementation work on the foreign type and
+ related syntax.
+ - Has written a detailed dissertation outline.
+
+ Ralph Becket (rafe):
+ - Has continued working on the loop invariant hoisting
+ optimization. This work is nearly ready for testing.
+
+ Mark Brown (dougl):
+ - Finished off support for .NET data types in the retry
+ aspect of the debugger; only managed pointers are not
+ unhandled and Mark has a design to accommodate them.
+
+ David Overton (dmo):
+ - Has done some more work on the mode inference paper.
+ - Started work on a detailed dissertation outline.
+
+ Fergus Henderson (fjh):
+ - Gave Ralph some help on the loop invariant optimization.
+ - Has been working on accurage GC for the high-level C
+ back end. Has done some preliminary benchmarking to get
+ an idea of the cost of the extra bookkeeping involved.
+
+Other Business
+
+ Five students will definitely be working with us over the summer.
+ Their exam's finish on 27 November and the plan is to give them
+ the Mercury introductory courses on the 28th and 29th.
+
+ One student will be working on the accurage garbage collector.
+
+ Various students have expressed an interest in working on the
+ Java back end.
+
+ Simon Mei (not one of the five definites) who was a summer student
+ last year has explained that he may be able to work with us part
+ time.
+
+Minutes taken by Ralph Becket (rafe at cs.mu.oz.au)
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