Cutting Edge Tool chain (Latest Features in GCC/GLIBC)
Channel: OpenExpo Europe by MyPublicInbox
Date: 2020-05-12

Link to the presentation: https://cutt.ly/4ymf5UG

DESCRIPTION

Toolchain technology is a day to day tool used by Linux developers. The core system of this technology is released every year (GLIBC twice a year). However, what new technology is being implemented on these releases? How can we as Linux developers can take advantage of these new features? This presentation aims to show an introduction to the major features released in GCC 8/9 and Glibc 2.29.

Recent compilers came with new features and performance optimizations including various improvements in the diagnostics, Inter-procedural optimization improvements, Link-time optimization improvements and even fcf-protection for security attacks.

At the same time, the glibc came with changes such as getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently used CPU and NUMA node. Having a better understanding of the toolchains allows showcasing the best of CPU architecture technology, from low-level kernel features to complex applications which span the entire operating system

ABOUT VÍCTOR RODRÍGUEZ

Victor holds a Master Degree in Computer Science from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM). Victor is a Linux developer since 2011. He began his career in the Linux kernel community as maintainer of the board OMAP138 “Hawk board” platform. At Intel, he is part of the Open Source Technology Center as OS developer. He has been part of the Clear Linux* Project for Intel® Architecture in areas such as performance optimizations, security, debug, compilers/toolchains and tools development. Victor has had the chance to be in HPC and binary translation teams at Intel too. In his free time he is professor of the ITESM where he teach the Operating System lecture. Victor loves to run marathons, collaborate in embedded projects ( Yocto developer ) and read all kind of literature.

Moderated by Philippe Lardy - https://philippelardy.com