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* The potential use of Jitter and other virtual machines to speed up Octave execution, by Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor.
* The potential use of Jitter and other virtual machines to speed up Octave execution, by Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor.
** [https://octave.discourse.group/t/vm-for-octave-interpreter/2686 Discourse thread]
** [https://octave.discourse.group/t/vm-for-octave-interpreter/2686 Discourse thread]
** '''Unfortunately the speaker didn't show. jwe presented his ideas on VM and linear evaluation instead.'''
* Drop "native" MXE Octave builders from buildbot configuration?
* Drop "native" MXE Octave builders from buildbot configuration?
** [https://octave.discourse.group/t/drop-native-builds-from-mxe-octave/2689 Discourse thread]
** [https://octave.discourse.group/t/drop-native-builds-from-mxe-octave/2689 Discourse thread]

Revision as of 19:13, 24 May 2022

Today's topics

  • The potential use of Jitter and other virtual machines to speed up Octave execution, by Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor.
    • Discourse thread
    • Unfortunately the speaker didn't show. jwe presented his ideas on VM and linear evaluation instead.
  • Drop "native" MXE Octave builders from buildbot configuration?
  • Timeframe for Octave 7.2 release?
    • Important fixes (among others possible loss of .m file content on exit)
    • still unresolved: bug #62308 use of octave::feval causes error: function '...' not found
      • jwe will create a RC within two weeks
  • Update on Fosshost?
    • Buildbot worker on ARM hardware?
      • No, see below
    • Possible to run a Mercurial server? With mirror(?), forks for GSoC students(?), ...
      • Possible, needs setup 😇
    • Short summary: Octave got one x86_64 server instance (2 cores, 4 GB memory, 500 GB HDD), useful as webserver probably?!
$ uname -a
Linux fosshost 5.10.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.113-1 (2022-04-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ free -h
               total
Mem:           3.8Gi

$ lsblk 
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0   64G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   63G  0 part /
├─sda2   8:2    0    1K  0 part 
└─sda5   8:5    0  975M  0 part [SWAP]
sdb      8:16   0  500G  0 disk 
sr0     11:0    1  378M  0 rom 

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo   # two cores
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 6
model name      : Common KVM processor
stepping        : 1
microcode       : 0x1
cpu MHz         : 2400.084
cache size      : 16384 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 2
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 13
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc nopl xtopology cpuid tsc_known_freq pni cx16 x2apic hypervisor lahf_lm cpuid_fault pti
bugs            : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs itlb_multihit
bogomips        : 4800.16
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
  • Access by Arun, jwe, Kai, anyone with time and interest (or ideas what to do with it) is welcome to help with the setup.
Kai will start moving the wiki to FossHost; all web-services should move there eventually

Previous topics

  • Meet and greet 5 minutes before meeting (audio testing).
  • Performance over time (Arun, Rik)
    • Discourse thread for background
    • Analysis and profiling of existing code base -- share and solicit experiences.
    • Performance benchmark to track speed over time as part of CI? (Not as part of CI for now, can be done separately, Arun will share progress updates on Discourse)
  • GSoC: call for mentors (Nir/Kai)
    • Interesting mentors should write to Nir or Kai before: 2022-05-06, ideally before.
    • Final deadline (to the sponsor) is May 12.
  • Octave 7.1.0 post-release remarks:
    • Overall time from merge of default to stable (2021-11-24) until release of version 7.1.0 (2022-04-06): approx. 4 months
      • Why does it take us so long for the last couple of releases?
      • Should we start the release process earlier?
    • A couple of bugs have been solved on the stable branch since the release. Last time we released 6.2.0 pretty early after 6.1.0. Should we do the same again?
    • Regressions that should probably be solved before a potential 7.2.0:
      • bug #62308: use of octave::feval causes error: function '...' not found
      • patch #10200: wrong axes using stairs in subplot --- This affects a lot more plotting functions besides stairs. They always plot into gca and ignore the input axes handle.
      • others?

See also

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