GNU Tools Cauldron 2025

GNU Tools Cauldron 2025

Jeremy Bennett

Jeremy Bennett is Chief of Executive of Embecosm, a specialist open source consultancy, best known for its work with compiler and AI tool chains. He is author of the standard textbook "Introduction to Compiling Techniques" (McGraw-Hill 1990, 1995, 2003). Jeremy has attended every GNU Tools Cauldron and is a director of the GNU Tools Cauldron Community Interest Company.


Sessions

09-26
12:00
15min
Measuring the health of the GCC community
Jeremy Bennett

In this short talk, I look at how data mining of repository activity and mailing lists can give insight to the health of a community project. The talk offers no prescriptions, its purpose is to share techniques that may be useful to the community.

Auditorium B032 (80)
09-27
09:00
60min
BoF on GCC and AI
Pietra Ferreira, Jeremy Bennett

The proposal is for a BoF on GCC and AI, with the goal of opening up discussion on:

  • Current and emerging use cases where GCC intersects with AI/ML workloads, including compiler optimisations for AI kernels.
  • Challenges in supporting AI accelerators and heterogeneous compute through GCC.
  • Open questions for the community: to what extent should GCC evolve in this area, and where should external tooling take the lead?

The idea is to bring together community members interested in this intersection of GCC and AI, share experiences, and identify where GCC could play a meaningful role.

Auditorium B001 (170)
09-28
13:30
60min
RISC-V BoF
Jeremy Bennett

The annual opportunity to review and discuss anything about the RISC-V backend.

Auditorium B002 (170)