[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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