Scala Meeting report, 2011-08-02

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Scala Meeting report, 2011-08-02

Attending

Adriaan: work on virtualizing pattern matching, coming along nicely.
Vlad: inlining exception handlers, making the analysis fast, but now
figuring out problematic interaction with existing inliner
Tiark: more high-level programming style in delite led to performance
hit, trying to figure out why stuff wasn’t inlined and JIT’ed -- now
back to old performance
Miguel: type erasure on .NET
Christopher: finished thesis
Mirco: scala java interop in IDE
Grzegorz: working with Miguel’s tool (jdk2ikvm) to create own version
of scala lib, removing stuff that’s not supported in the browser --
pretty painful since lots of things depend on reflection (e.g.,
bigdecimal -> enumeration -> reflection -> blah). Preparing report.
Lukas: Work on the state side-effect plugin. Got first examples
running, now ironing out bugs.
Trond & Fredrik: joined typesafe today
Hubert: working on error trees (done RSN), buildmanager integration
for eclipse (compiled for 2.8, 2.9, trunk)
Heather: documentation, cluster back-end for delite
Josh: working on SBT build, but rt.jar changes every time due to some problem
Yuvi: INF tickets, building spec

Discussion

Small documentation request

Heather is collecting existing material (in the style of the “what’s
new in 2.8” series) for inclusion in the documentation project.

Pedro (scaladoc contributor) is looking for a new reviewer [Yuvi]

  New contacts: Vlad for model stuff, Heather for HTML

Enumeration [Josh]

  Backport fix for the maxId issue to 2.8 [SI-3687, Hubert will take care of it]