Meeting 2014 05 05
Lars Bergstrom edited this page May 5, 2014
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- Introduction of new team member
- Rooting, hooray
- jack: It has all landed now.
- jdm: We have a new parallel layout race...
- larsberg: Is there a bug?
- jdm: Yes.
- larsberg: I can look at those; I've been mopping up some of those.
- jack: How rare?
- jdm: Very.
- jack: Meet Cameron
- larsberg: He'll be working on some of the cross-language inlining so that we can upgrade SpiderMonkey. Before that, some DOM bindings work.
- jack: We can't build on 32-bit builds b/c of our JSValue representations. I suspect we only run on Android because we have never tried to do any JS-containing pages on it. We crash on 32-bit immediately normally. I have a PR not ready for merging that update all of the layouts to be 32-bit compatible & have all the flags for cross-compiling. Right now, I have places where during function call a pointer gets invalidated. I suspect a Rust bug. Once workaround might be to use raw pointers instead. Thought we'd just add a few configure flags?
- larsberg: Does this work for a new spidermonkey?
- jdm: Mostly stays the same.
- jack: Probably the same 47-bit layout.
- azita: Met with the program managers; they are involved in the ones that are moving from research to engineering right now. Hopefully, mid-year we will get more support helping Rust/Servo with planning/tracking efforts. They're already helping us with some 1.0 burndown work. They help not only with planning, but also with project embedding & deciding how things get shipped.
- Azita: did you decide, jack? It's right around the corner!
- jack: I will e-mail Diana about san diego as well; otherwise, it'll be the Portland plan that we talked about on Thursday.
- azita: Glenn will need to purchase his tickets soon.
- gw: Still the same timeframe?
- mbrubeck: Finance is already going to be angry at us because we are booking travel so late.
- azita: We should decide on the location this week.
- kmc: The first week in June?
- jack: Yes, June 2nd.
- abinader: Also willing to participate! The sooner the place can be settled, the better.
- jack: We should have an answer this week.