Platform/2008-11-04

GFX blocking 1.9.1+
GFX wanted 1.9.1+
(It was tempting to just delete that one line)
Cairo 1.8.2 update (released last week) -- has some rendering fixes we need; patch ready to go, but got ignored by talos tryservers yesterday (bug 463005) so not sure i fthere's any performance impact (shouldn't be)
Turning on SSE2 optimizations on win32
Maybe also SSE2 on linux, but we have stack alignment issues due to the version of gcc being used; there's an xpcom patch which helps, but we think it'll just make the problem less likely to happen but still possible (need 16-byte aligned stacks). Not as big of a deal as win32 though, the expensive rendering is often in the X server.
DL fonts access control pieces also today, pending reviews

Content 1.9.1 Bugs
XPConnect perf work:
- peterv's landing his major work for b2. Some of the changes are already in the tree.
Worker Threads:
- Last large patch to bring the implementation up to spec compliance (or really close to) ready to land.
Speculative script loading:
- Blake has made some progress and is ready to attempt a re-landing once the tree is ready for it.

(tchung) See Topcrashes from Beta 1. Particularly needing blocking beta 2 attention:
- #1, #2, #4, #8
- #5 & #6 need more investigation

Can people please try to stick around after landing patches. Landing something then vanishing before even unit testers have cycled is uncool, particularly on freeze day.

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