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On 11/20/2011 4:33 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
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<div>One idea for a hacking session would be a "performance
analysis workshop". People could bring their apps, we could
sample them track down what part of the compiler would need to
change and code it up (if time allowed).</div>
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<div>Given the trade offs involved, it could be helpful to many
folks, the trick is to get the right people to show up.</div>
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Chris, is there a formal feedback mechanism for the Developer's
meeting? One comment I'd like to make is that I think we need
microphones both for the speakers at the conference and for people
in the audience to use to ask questions at the end. Every speaker
had to repeat questions because audience members couldn't hear the
questioner.<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For now, please send any feedback to llvm-dev and feel free to cc me directly. We will hopefully have some formal mechanism for getting feedback or gathering some thoughts about next year's format.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Tanya</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
Of course, I think it speaks to LLVM's success that the meeting has
such a problem: so many people attend that we have to get large
rooms where hearing everyone is not possible.<br>
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On Nov 20, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Joe Abbey <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jabbey@arxan.com">jabbey@arxan.com</a>>
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<div>Sorry I missed the Community Event Planning session.
There was this neat session on Backend\Infrastructure
competing with it. :)</div>
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<div><b>Whiteboards (with markers (and erasers?)). </b></div>
<div>I was speaking with Dan G about the complexities of
trying to get the SelectionDAG to represent physical
registers. He mentioned during our conversation that a
whiteboard would help. Ballroom Salon V would have been a
perfect place for a whiteboard room. Surely others had
conversations where if I could just draw a box... with some
arrows... this concept would totally make more sense. No
DNE allowed ;)</div>
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<div><b>Hacking Session</b></div>
<div>It was an absolute blast getting to meet many of the
active contributors. I think it was a great meet &
greet, and the room we were in was amply stocked with
refreshments. Great job on getting that going.</div>
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<div>But if we want to get some collaborative coding, must
have a conference room with tables, whiteboards, and wifi.
Also there wasn't much direction towards the hacking, we
were all coming from different backgrounds and
concentrations. I think if there were some air of
games/competition we'd get more coding. Perhaps something
like make this C code run as fast as possible, or as small
as possible on x86 using only clang and llvm to compile.
Patches welcome to make the code smaller/faster. Another
thought is to have a C/C++ snippet which is laden with
errors and or warnings, and enhance clang to diagnose what
is wrong. Probably want to have some lottery-style
organization of teams, so that the community is strengthened
with teams consisting of various backgrounds.</div>
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<div>On the other hand, I bet most of the attendees would
probably go for boardgame session. Many boardgames, like
Settlers of Catan, Bohnanza, Ticket to Ride, Race to the
Galaxy, etc etc exercise logic and strategy. I think that
would be another way to keep conversations going.</div>
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<div>Maybe others have thoughts, too.</div>
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