<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hello! My
name is Emanuel and I am an undergraduate student from Brazil (at the
University of São Paulo) wanting to participate in this years GSoC on
LLVM. Specifically, on the "Improve parallelism-aware analyses and
optimizations" project. <br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I currently do research on
autotuning of LLVM IR optimization passes and I am sitting for
a class about parallel computing, but I have been studying the
subject by my own for some weeks. I think I have an intermediate
level of C++, but that is kind of difficult to measure. It would be my first
contribution to open source, so I don't have much to show :(<br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In a sentence, I have a lot of passion, but not much experience, so I am writing to know if this is a deal breaker :(</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">If not, what would be the next steps?<br></div></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="verdana, sans-serif">Emanuel Lima </font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>