Re: Call for ideas for future musl-related talks

[Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>]

* Justin Cormack <justin@specialbusservice.com> [2014-12-28 16:24:43 +0000]:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
> > After having done a couple conference talks already at Ohio LinuxFest
> > 2013 and 2014, I'm considering pursuing more conferences, but I'm not
> > sure what topics/framing would be most interesting and effective at
> > getting more people interested in musl. If there's anything special
> > you'd like to hear me give a talk on, or think would be constructive
> > to the project, reply and let me know.
> 
> Apologies for not getting back sooner.
> 
> I think the most interesting topic for a talk for a generalist
> audience is to cover the kinds of bugs you write about on ewontfix. (I
> wouldn't talk about systemd though, it is too partisan for people to
> listen clearly).
> 
> The focus should be around techniques for writing better software,
> better specifications, and how to find problematic areas. And about
> how writing tests for these things is hard, because a lot of them are
> races, although talking about where tests do and dont work is good
> too.
> 

my whishlist is

- why do posix and c matter in the age of web/mobile/cloud

- good/bad/ugly parts of posix/linux/toolchain from libc pov

- metrics (benchmarks, size, complexity, amount of libc code
executed in various use-cases, time spent in libc, etc)