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<pre wrap="">On 21 March 2016 at 17:17, Daniel Berlin via llvm-dev
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<pre wrap="">Has anybody done any study in the past to evaluate what kinds of features
in pointer analyses will benefit what kinds of optimization passes?
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Yes.
Chris did many years ago, and i've done one more recently.
Great! Are they published somewhere? Can the data be shared somehow?
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No, and sadly, no
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This sounds like a good GSOC project.
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Need any volunteers?<br>
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I'd be interested in any work that relates to pointer analysis,
including this as well as the "
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one to two years of work" Daniel mentioned. What held me back from
submitting a proposal is the concern that such kind of explorative
work whose outcome is not guaranteed to be useful may not be
attractive enough to the LLVM devs.<br>
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Jia Chen
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