MPFR-MPC Developers Meeting 2011

Location: INRIA Antenne Parisienne, 23 avenue d'Italie, Salle Rose, 5th floor (metro Place d'Italie). [directions (in french)]

The goal of this meeting is to discuss future developments of the GNU MPFR and the MPC libraries. It is open to all people who are interested to contribute to GNU MPFR and/or MPC, either in writing new code or contributing new ideas (see How to contribute to MPFR?).

Practical organization: there is no registration fee, however people interested in attending this meeting are kindly requested to inform Paul Zimmermann. We have no special support for this meeting, participants are supposed to take in charge their travel and accomodation expenses. The dinner from January 13 will be offered to the participants by the CARAMEL team.

Tentative schedule:
January 13:
09:30: start of the meeting, discussion about MPFR-specific topics:

• release plans for MPFR 3.1.0
• change of the mpfr_exp_t type to int64_t or long
• add a "division by zero" exception?
• tools to print MPFR variables in GDB
• make --enable-thread-safe the default? (suggested by Rick Hodgin on Nov 28, 2010)
• [suggest your own topics here]

• release plans for MPC 1.0
• should MPC become a GNU package?
• write a scientific publication on MPC
• correct handling of Nan and infinities in the case of intermediate overflows while the result may fit

• [MPFR or MPC] implement the CEVAL algorithm from Sagraloff and Yap
• [MPC] add a complex AGM (error analysis wanted)
• [MPC] add correctly rounded roots of unity
• [MPC] web page comparing timings with different systems like MPFR
• [MPC] use of the PIPOL platform
• [MPFR] implement the "division by zero" exception?
• [MPC] continue writing algorithms.tex; improve section on mpc_pow, add trigonometric functions
• [MPC] implement mpc_fma (a*b+c)