SBCL's 20th Anniversary Workshop
SBCL
was announced to the world in December 1999.
To celebrate, there will be a workshop in Vienna
at Bundesrechenzentrum,
the Federal Computing Center of Austria on Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th
December 2019, with bonding and social activities taking place on
Sunday 8th December. (There was
a 10th anniversary workshop
in London in 2009)
General information
Programme
The SBCL20 workshop is intended to give a space and time so that
interested parties can discuss ideas, hear other peoples' use cases
and desires, and work on blue-sky design in collaboration. There will
be a few more extended talks to serve as motivation, but most of the
workshop will be held in rooms with numerous flipcharts, network
connections, and access to caffeinated beverages. Towards the end of
each day, all participants will be invited to give lightning talks on
anything that they have worked on during that time, or any other topic
of interest.
Speakers
- Robert Smith: SBCL for Quantum Computing at Rigetti
-
Rigetti Computing develops quantum integrated circuits and quantum
computers, and provides a compiler and virtual machine allowing users
to experiment with quantum algorithms. I'll talk about using SBCL to
build quantum computing tools, why I have been a long advocate of a
port to the 64-bit POWER architecture, and offer thoughts on how
Common Lisp can stay alive in the quantum computing future.
- Douglas Katzman: SBCL, playing nice with Unix (finally)
- Douglas Katzman works on SBCL as a member of the Google Flights
team. I'll talk about memory management, signal handling, stack
examination, binary file formats, and recent work in making SBCL
behave more like a regular Unix executable, with benefits for
interoperability and operating system support.
- Charles Zhang: Experiences in porting SBCL to RISC-V
- Charles Zhang is an undergraduate student with specialisms in
Mathematics and Linguistics. I'll talk about my experience in taking
the barest-bones start of a port of SBCL to a new architecture through
to completion, discussing what was easy and what was surprisingly
difficult.
Other contributions
Monday afternoon
- Marco Heisig: SIMD in SBCL [bugfix]
- James Anderson: Garbage Collection – a controversial? opinion
- Philipp Marek: Alexandria 2
- Luís Oliveira: Header files and incremental compilation
Tuesday afternoon
- Siebe de Vos: Tuning SBCL's Garbage Collector
- Masatoshi SANO: SWIG for SBCL
- Charles Zhang: Contification (what is contification? Contification using dominators)
- Harald Judt: container-lisp / s2i-lisp
- Christophe Rhodes: reading floating-point non-numbers
- Robert Smith: strictly and strongly-typed functional programming
- Vsevolod Dyomkin: what's missing in SBCL from the user point of view
Hallway track
