From nobody Wed Jun 19 06:31:11 2024 X-Original-To: hackers@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4W3v04229zz5P33Y for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:31:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr) Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.inria.fr", Issuer "GEANT OV RSA CA 4" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4W3v030Rtwz57kV; Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:31:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=inria.fr header.s=dc header.b=B5Ajw4yj; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=inria.fr; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr designates 192.134.164.83 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=inria.fr; s=dc; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:subject: references; bh=/KY7u82r42pKS13fQ4UCY8bM7RIvbTZPTKS+ihWtOCU=; b=B5Ajw4yjJO+O0YZmJwDjgAsk4QIDBXWcFIjZAhiUEVtJ3cvzhSHyRXCa z5Mg9RM/JdlkmdIJjOYR0qZIVJXCeWVdakgX8On32BgUZy/ed7kbpXgYB YBX3s4nQ31WOOIydt5JpYeQy1aZ4//mMmXhJC5oJVlhZFjGdgvCN392te I=; Received-SPF: SoftFail (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr: domain of Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr is inclined to not designate 152.81.9.227 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=152.81.9.227; receiver=mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr"; x-sender="Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr"; x-conformance=spf_only; x-record-type="v=spf1"; x-record-text="v=spf1 include:mailout.safebrands.com a:basic-mail.safebrands.com a:basic-mail01.safebrands.com a:basic-mail02.safebrands.com ip4:128.93.142.0/24 ip4:192.134.164.0/24 ip4:128.93.162.160 ip4:89.107.174.7 mx ~all" Received-SPF: None (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@coriandre) identity=helo; client-ip=152.81.9.227; receiver=mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr"; x-sender="postmaster@coriandre"; x-conformance=spf_only X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.08,249,1712613600"; d="scan'208";a="171365738" Received: from coriandre.loria.fr (HELO coriandre) ([152.81.9.227]) by mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 19 Jun 2024 08:31:11 +0200 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:31:11 +0200 Message-Id: From: Paul Zimmermann To: Robert Clausecker Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, kargl@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (message from Robert Clausecker on Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:31:01 +0200) Subject: Re: Opportunities for numerical work on FreeBSD? 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This is not part of FreeBSD, but FreeBSD might incorporate routines from CORE-MATH (which are under MIT license). Best regards, Paul Zimmermann > Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:31:01 +0200 > From: Robert Clausecker > > > [1:text/plain Hide] > > Greetings, > > I have here a talented maths student looking for a place to > complete her mandatory (unpaid) industry internship. > > She has a knack for numerical analysis, differential equations, > and writing floating point code. I suggested that there might > be need for some improvement to the math code currently shipped > with FreeBSD as the old msun code, while very precise, is not > writted to take advantage of modern SIMD FPUs with FMA support > and could be improved considerably. > > Is there an interest for such or other numerical work on the > FreeBSD code base? Would anybody be interested in supervising > such work? If yes, I would try to connect the two of you. > > Yours, > Robert Clausecker > > -- > () ascii ribbon campaign - for an encoding-agnostic world > /\ - against html email - against proprietary attachments > > [2:application/pgp-signature Show Save:signature.asc (963B)] >