[LLVMdev] Open work items with a small scope

[Sean Silva]

There's an open project to rewrite our GVN (and it seems like there's
already a pretty good consensus for the direction to take it). See this
thread <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.cvs/158097/>.

-- Sean Silva


On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Julian Lettner <julian.lettner at uci.edu>wrote:

> Dear Clang/LLVM community!
>
> We (a group of 3 highly motivated CS grad students) are taking a class
> about compilers and optimizations.
> This class offers the option of doing a implementation project (instead of
> reading/writing x papers) for its main part.
> Of course hacking is much more fun than ... ;)
>
> So my question is do you know of any open points, compiler passes,
> optimizations in the LLVM / Clang realm that are small enough for a student
> group to be tackled in a quarter (~2 months)?
> We acknowledge that compilers are very complex software and that it is
> very hard to do anything meaningful in this timeframe.
> So we would appreciate any guidance you can offer.
> This could also mean doing work in a LLVM / Clang related project, as LLVM
> / Clang themselves are pretty mature projects and doing anything
> substantial would probably take much longer.
> The only requirement of the project would be that it is in the realm of
> compilers and optimizations.
>
> Some areas/ideas we are especially interested in:
> Adaption of Clang to support OpenMP (http://clang-omp.github.io/), but
> haven't been able to contact one of the developers yet.
>
> Profile-guided optimization:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b2XFuOkR2K-Oao4u5fR3a9Ok83IB_W4EJWVmNak4GRE/pub
>
> We are glad for any pointers, suggestions and other help.
> Also feel free to answer me directly if you like.
> -- Julian
>
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