SIG Build meeting this Tuesday, Aug 2, at 2pm Pacific

[Austin Anderson]

Hey all,

Our next meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday, August 2, at 2pm Pacific time. All the details are here: http://bit.ly/tf-sig-build-notes

Please feel free to suggest your own agenda items.

Thanks!
Austin

[Austin Anderson]

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.