Scala Meeting report, 2010-01-19

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as it is, is better than nothing.

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Report from the Scala Core Team meeting, 2010-01-19:

People attending the meeting: Hubert, Martin, Eugene, Phil, Alex, Tiark,
Adriaan, Lukas, Toni, Gilles, Iulian, Philipp, Donna, Ingo.

* Current work
- writing documentation for Scaladoc
- resumed work on the reflection library
- fixed bugs in the .Net bytecode generation
- more work on the build manager bugs
- performance work
- new code for the Visual Studio integration package
- work on parallel collections, added scalacheck tests

* Performance
- Shaved another 8% time in type checking
- Paul reduced the time needed for classfile generation
- Since the start of the optimization effort, on Windows the compilation
time of the compiler halved.

* 2.8.0 Beta
- RC8 is out, we'll wait until Monday next week for feedback
- slowdowns while typing in Eclipse (later fixed in r20622)

* Scala Days
- we received plenty of submissions, now under review
- website for Scala Days is ready and will go live shortly
- will write a call to invite proposals for technical talks, experience
talks, demo sessions