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[Vikram S. Adve]

Dear LLVM users,

The development of LLVM has been supported primarily by funding from  
the National Science Foundation and the University of Illinois.  in  
order to maintain our sources of funding and attract new ones, It is  
important for us to be able to document how LLVM is benefiting  
companies, universities, other organizations, and individuals in the  
outside world.  (The information we get from downloads is insufficient  
because we cannot distinguish casual downloads from active users.)

WE HOPE YOU WILL HELP US GATHER THIS STATISTICAL INFORMATION.  If you  
are using LLVM at present or have used LLVM in the past, please answer  
the following short list of questions.  It would be sufficient for us  
to get "anonymous" information such whether you are at a university or  
company, using LLVM for development, research, or teaching, etc..   
Additional specifics such as company names, etc., are optional but  
valuable also.  Please reply to this message even if you think we know  
about you, and even if you are at UIUC but not a member of the LLVM  
research group -- it will help us tabulate the information accurately.   
(Note that your replies will go to vadve at cs.uiuc.edu, not to  
llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu):


                     ---BRIEF QUESTIONNAIRE FOR LLVM USERS---

(a) Do you consider yourself an active user of LLVM at present?

(b) If your previous answer is YES, how long have you been using LLVM  
actively?  If your answer was NO, when did you stop using LLVM?

(c) Which of the following best describes your project :
	(i)   Development project (including exploratory projects)
	(ii)  Research project
	(iii)  Student using LLVM for a class project
	(iv)  Instructor using LLVM for class projects

(d) Which of the following best describes the organization or context  
of your project:
	(i)   University
	(ii)  Established company
	(iii) Startup or early-stage venture
	(iv)  Open source software project
	(v)   Individual interest project

(e) [OPTIONAL] What is the name of your organization referred to in the  
previous question?  What is your  department or group?

(f) Which of the following best describes how you are using or used  
LLVM (specify all that are applicable):
	(i)   To implement a language
	(ii)  As an optimization framework
	(iii) As a program analysis framework
	(iv)  To implement a managed runtime system (JIT or interpreter-based)
	(v)   For supporting a architecture, processor, or hardware design
	(vi)  For some part of an operating system, e.g., improving  
portability or performance.

(g) Where are you located:
	(i)    USA
	(ii)   Canada
	(iii)  Mexico or Central America
	(iii)  South America
	(iv)  Europe excluding Russia
	(v)   Russia
	(vi)  China
	(vii) India
	(viii) Asia excluding China and India
	(ix)   Australia
	(x)    South Pacific excluding Australia

(h) How did you obtain your current copy of LLVM?
	(i)   Web download
	(ii)  CVS access
	(iii) Copy from someone else

(i) [OPTIONAL] If you have any positive or negative comments about  
LLVM, please include them here.  All comments are welcome.  If you  
don't have time, please do send us the other answers above.   Thanks!!


                        ---END OF QUESTIONNAIRE---


--Vikram Adve

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  VIKRAM S. ADVE
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  Siebel Center for Computer Science             PHONE: (217) 244-2016
  Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign            FAX: (217) 265-6582
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