Agenda for sync meeting 10/30/2020

[tlively]

The next meeting will be Friday, October 30 at 9:00AM - 10:00AM PDT/ 5:00PM - 6:00PM CET. Notice that the European time has changed due to the end of daylight savings time in Europe. Please respond with agenda items you would like to discuss.

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Carryover items from the last meeting include:

• Revisting inclusion criteria and finalizing the instruction set (Soft Freeze on new operation additions post Phase 3 #203, Finalizing the instruction set #343)

[omnisip]

Can we discuss feature detection #356 in conjunction with #203 and #343? If a viable forward-compatible feature detection system can be implemented simply and efficiently as part of the standard, it may alleviate outstanding concerns that features are missing from the initial standard, while making it possible to roll out for those who are ready.

[arunetm]

As an extension to the inclusion criteria topic, it helps to have a general consensus on not treating AVX512 support as good evidence of near term hardware support for operations. Relevant to few recent proposals #379, #351 (comment)

Here is a recent announcement on AVX512 not being part of the upcoming Alder Lake platforms. https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/download/intel-architecture-instruction-set-extensions-programming-reference.html

[tlively]

Thanks all for a productive meeting and thanks @ngzhian for taking the notes!