llvm dev - Apr 2007 - [LLVMdev] May 25th 2007 Developers Meeting (Update)

All,

Here's an update on the Developer's Meeting. I've created a page for
the
meeting on the main web site at http://llvm.org/DevMtgMay2007.html. If
you want to find out the latest, please visit that page. From here on
out, I will be tracking the meeting's progress on that page.  However,
I'll still send out one of these update notes when there are significant
developments.

First, the questions you all wanted answered: 
   Yes, the date (May 25th), is firm.
   Yes, the location (Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA) is firm.
   Yes, you can make travel reservations now.

The first 12 people have confirmed their attendance. However, there were
about 25-30 of you that expressed a desire to attend in the poll last
year. If you haven't confirmed your attendance yet, please do so by
responding to this email. If you're not sure, please see
http://llvm.org/DevMtgMay2007.html#attendees to see if you're on the
list already. You need to confirm by May 1st so that we can ensure we
have a sufficiently large room reserved for the attendees.

Don't make me start calling you out by name!

We have three talks so far. Vikram Adve will discuss the history of
LLVM. Chris Lattner will talk about how Apple uses LLVM. Sarah Thomposon
will talk about how NASA, Ames is using LLVM for static analysis and
symbolic execution. 

While that's a great start, it isn't enough to cover the whole day. (I
know Chris is long winded, but I don't think even he would enjoy talking
about Apple OpenGL and LLVM for 6 hours straight). We need more content
if we're going to do more than just chit chat all day.

Bottom line: we need your ideas and participation. Don't worry about the
posted Agenda, we can rearrange it to fit the things you want to talk
about. There are at least three categories of things you can propose:

1. A presentation/talk that you could give on anything related to LLVM.
2. A discussion topic that you would like to hear other people's
thoughts about.
3. An LLVM issue to resolve in Session 4.

Other ideas are welcome too. 

Please do not hesitate. Just send your ideas in, however crazy they
might seem.

Looking forward to meeting you all!

Reid.

Reid Spencer wrote:
If you haven't confirmed your attendance yet, please do so
by
> responding to this email.
I'll be there.

Furthermore, I'd like to present the Design and Implementation of the
PredicateSimplifier pass, or, "VRP in LLVM".

Nick Lewycky

Hey Nick,

On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 18:25 -0400, Nick Lewycky wrote:
> Reid Spencer wrote:
> If you haven't confirmed your attendance yet, please do so by
> > responding to this email.
> 
> I'll be there.
Great!
> 
> Furthermore, I'd like to present the Design and Implementation of the
> PredicateSimplifier pass, or, "VRP in LLVM".
Thanks Nick. I'll add this right away.

Reid.
> 
> Nick Lewycky
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One useful topic would be :

	How to use bug point to identify wrong code gen bugs.
-
Devang

I will be attending.

I also suggest we have a session discussing concurrency primitives  
for multi-threaded shared memory models, though I don't claim to be  
any sort of expert myself. I've spent some time looking over the Java  
Memory Model revision and discussions and I think it would be worth  
discussing similar issues with regards to LLVM.

--
Christopher Lamb



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Not just CodeGen!  Bugpoint is wonderful for misoptimizations too!  But I agree
that a bugpoint tutorial would be a good topic for the "Learning LLVM"
session.

--Owen

On Monday, April 02, 2007, at 12:49PM, "Devang Patel" <dpatel at
apple.com> wrote:
>One useful topic would be :
>
>	How to use bug point to identify wrong code gen bugs.
>-
>Devang
>
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I'll be there.

I'd like to talk about a topic that's near and dear to my hear:
"How
to survive an attack by Oscar?".

:-)

Evan

On Mar 31, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Reid Spencer wrote:
> All,
>
> Here's an update on the Developer's Meeting. I've created a
page
> for the
> meeting on the main web site at http://llvm.org/DevMtgMay2007.html. If
> you want to find out the latest, please visit that page. From here on
> out, I will be tracking the meeting's progress on that page.  However,
> I'll still send out one of these update notes when there are  
> significant
> developments.
>
> First, the questions you all wanted answered:
>    Yes, the date (May 25th), is firm.
>    Yes, the location (Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA) is firm.
>    Yes, you can make travel reservations now.
>
> The first 12 people have confirmed their attendance. However, there  
> were
> about 25-30 of you that expressed a desire to attend in the poll last
> year. If you haven't confirmed your attendance yet, please do so by
> responding to this email. If you're not sure, please see
> http://llvm.org/DevMtgMay2007.html#attendees to see if you're on the
> list already. You need to confirm by May 1st so that we can ensure we
> have a sufficiently large room reserved for the attendees.
>
> Don't make me start calling you out by name!
>
> We have three talks so far. Vikram Adve will discuss the history of
> LLVM. Chris Lattner will talk about how Apple uses LLVM. Sarah  
> Thomposon
> will talk about how NASA, Ames is using LLVM for static analysis and
> symbolic execution.
>
> While that's a great start, it isn't enough to cover the whole day.
(I
> know Chris is long winded, but I don't think even he would enjoy  
> talking
> about Apple OpenGL and LLVM for 6 hours straight). We need more  
> content
> if we're going to do more than just chit chat all day.
>
> Bottom line: we need your ideas and participation. Don't worry  
> about the
> posted Agenda, we can rearrange it to fit the things you want to talk
> about. There are at least three categories of things you can propose:
>
> 1. A presentation/talk that you could give on anything related to  
> LLVM.
> 2. A discussion topic that you would like to hear other people's
> thoughts about.
> 3. An LLVM issue to resolve in Session 4.
>
> Other ideas are welcome too.
>
> Please do not hesitate. Just send your ideas in, however crazy they
> might seem.
>
> Looking forward to meeting you all!
>
> Reid.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> LLVM Developers mailing list
> LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu         http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev

On 4/3/07, Evan Cheng <evan.cheng at apple.com>
wrote:
> I'd like to talk about a topic that's near and dear to my hear:
"How
> to survive an attack by Oscar?".
Don't you know?  You leave a sacraficial printout of a DAG for it to
look at every morning...

Andrew

On Mar 31, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Reid Spencer wrote:
> If you haven't confirmed your attendance yet, please do so by
> responding to this email.
I will be there.

On 3/31/07, Reid Spencer <rspencer at reidspencer.com>
wrote:
> Don't make me start calling you out by name!
I'll try to make it.

Andrew

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 16:04 -0700, Dale Johannesen
wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Reid Spencer wrote:
> > If you haven't confirmed your attendance yet, please do so by
> > responding to this email.
> 
> I will be there.
Thanks, Dale. You've been added.

Reid.
> 
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> Don't make me start calling you out by name!
>
I plan to go.

Fernando

Sounds very interesting; if possibly, I will also come.
-Gabe

I would also like to come.
-Gabe

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:11:44PM -0700, Reid Spencer
wrote:
> If you haven't confirmed your attendance yet, please do so by
> responding to this email. 
Hello,

I would like to attend too.

Thank you,
Julien

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> On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:11:44PM -0700, Reid Spencer wrote:
>   
>> If you haven't confirmed your attendance yet, please do so by
>> responding to this email. 
>>     
Just to confirm, I do intend to come along. Are you still interested in 
me giving a talk on NASA's work on using LLVM to support model checking, 
symbolic execution and static analysis? If so, I'll block out some time 
to prepare some slides. If not, I won't have to. :-)

Sarah

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 15:20 -0700, Julien Lerouge wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:11:44PM -0700, Reid Spencer wrote:
> > If you haven't confirmed your attendance yet, please do so by
> > responding to this email. 
> 
> Hello,
Hi Julien,
> 
> I would like to attend too.
> 
> Thank you,
> Julien
> 
You're added!  See you there.

Reid.

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:11:44PM -0700, Reid Spencer wrote:
If you haven't confirmed your attendance yet, please do so
by
> responding to this email.
I and one more from Cray are planning to attend. 

Dan

-- 
Dan Gohman, Cray Inc.