[LLVMdev] GSoC: Proposal for LLVM performance audit

[Vikram Dhillon]

Apologies for the wrong email, here is my proper email address.

- Vikram

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Vikram Dhillon
<dhillonv10 at knights.ucf.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a candidate for GSoC 2012 and I am looking forward to applying to
> LLVM this year. I talked to a few people on IRC: chandlerc, matthewbg,
> who were very helpful and directed me to post my idea on the list. As
> for my background, I work as a server-analyst for HostDime so my job
> includes conducting audits on server performance that our company
> hosts which are linux based and some VPS that utilize Xen, so I have a
> decent background in virtualization as well. I've been told that LLVM
> doesn't have much to do with it but I mentioned it to present some of
> my background.
>
> I would like to work on auditing performance or memory leaks in LLVM
> through the use of various open source tools such as valgrind (which I
> have used in the past to analyze memory leaks for android apps) and
> specially designed test-cases which can help find some of the
> performance issues. Also I am thinking of implementing an open-grok
> source-code browser so that the code can be easily linked internally
> and also make fixing bugs faster.
>
> I have started reading the LLVM docs and I realize that the first
> thing I need to do is to get LLVM up and running so I'm working on
> that however I need some help in writing my proposal which I will
> submit to LLVM, what type of test-cases can I include in my proposal?
> Also am I taking a good approach to this project? And lastly, how much
> competition would I be facing while working on a proposal for this
> project? Thanks a lot for your time!
>
> - Vikram