Re: GNU Tools Cauldron 2013 - 2nd Call for Abstracts

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>]

On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 13:03:24 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar 
<siddhesh@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 03:13:46PM -0500, Diego Novillo wrote:
> >> This time we will meet at Google Headquarters in Mountain View,
> >> California from 12/Jul/2013 to 14/Jul/2013.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> >> - BoFs: coordination meetings with other developers.
> > 
> > This should be close enough to planning for 2.19, so it might be a
> > good time to have a glibc BoF.
> 
> A GNU C Library BOF has been proposed and accepted for GNU Cauldron
> 2013.
> 
> ~~~
> The GNU C Library is used as the C library in the GNU systems
> and most systems with the Linux kernel. The library is
> primarily designed to be a portable and high performance C
> library.It follows all relevant standards including ISO C11
> and POSIX.1-2008. It is also internationalized and has one of
> the most complete internationalization interfaces known.
> 
> This BOF aims to bring together developers of other components
> that have dependencies on glibc and glibc developers to talk
> about the following topics:
> 
> * Planning for glibc 2.19 and what work needs to be done
>    between the August -> December 2013 timeframe (2.19 development
>    phase).
> 
> * Performance?
>    - The project calls itself a "high performance C library", but
>      we've never had a standard performance regression testsuite
>    - How do we measure performance?
>    - How do we track it?
>    - What criteria do we use to evaluate patches based on performance?
> - Starting with libm e.g. accuracy vs. runtime performance.
> 
> * libm
>    - Offer three libraries?
>    - Slow high performance, middle of the road, high performance low
> precision.
> 
> * Tuning the C library?
>    - What do we expose?
>    - Why?
>    - Hardware lock elision examples.
>    - Runtime tuning.
>    - Environment variables.
> 
> * POSIX conformance
>    - The usual.
> 
> * ISO C11, and C++11
>    - What's left?
> 
> * IPv4 and IPv6
>    - getaddrinfo mess.
> ~~~
> 
> As always we will report back to the community about the things
> discussed at the BOF.
> 
> The BOF is simply a good time to meet face-to-face and get to know
> eachother :-)
> 
> As I mentioned before I will likely be unable to attend the BOF in
> person but will be there virtually.

If there's a way to join virtually, it would be great - I'm not 
participating either.

The structure sounds good, I suggest to add something to invite people 
to join glibc development,

Andreas
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