[llvm-dev] GSOC ThinLTO Proposal

Vassil Vassilev via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Mar 31 04:01:20 PDT 2017


Hi Charles,

   Thanks for the interest in our GSoC projects!
On 28/03/17 23:40, Charles Saternos via llvm-dev wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> My name is Charles, and I'm interested in working on LLVM for GSOC. I 
> watched the 2016 LLVM conference ThinLTO talk and found it super 
> interesting. I'd like to work on it for GSOC.
>
> Since I'm currently working on my proposal, I talked\ with Mehdi on 
> IRC to learn more about the project and find what kind of contribution 
> would be useful. He mentioned that the big pieces of work right now 
> are refactoring (primarily to get out build statistics) and improving 
> performance by benchmarking ThinLTO against MonolithicLTO to finding 
> what optimizations should be added to ThinLTO.
>
> I'd be interested in working on either of these problems for my GSOC 
> project, but wanted to find out which took priority right now so I can 
> contribute something useful. I've got good C/C++ skills and a great 
> interest in compilers, so I'm excited to learn more about LLVM. Let me 
> know what thoughts you have and which parts of the project it would 
> make the most sense for me to work on.
   Given the fact that the deadline is approaching I'd suggest to decide 
which is the most interesting project for *you* and write a proposal. 
Try to contact the mentor as soon as possible to give you some feedback 
about the draft.

Cheers, Vassil
>
> Thanks!
> - Charles Saternos
>
>
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