SIG Build August Meeting: August 2 @ 2pm

Special Interest Groups Build
#1

SIG Build’s next meeting will be tomorrow, Tuesday, August 2, at 2pm Pacific time. Find the meeting details at bit.ly/tf-sig-build-notes, and feel free to suggest new agenda items.

#3

Thanks for attending, everyone. Here’s a brief summary of this month’s topics:

  • The TF team is converting the official Python package builds & CI to use clang instead of gcc, for parity with Google’s internal builds. This will cause toil for community build maintainers who continue to use gcc; we will raise this to TF leads and see what they say.
  • TensorFlow’s tools/ci_build directory is difficult to maintain. We discussed options for handling this, including a nuclear one. No explicit decision made.
  • XLA, MLIR and LLVM integrations continue to frustrate developers with lengthy TensorFlow build times, and more requests were made for ways to alleviate this.