[llvm-dev] [GSoC '20 Project Interest] - Improve MergeFunctions to incorporate MergeSimilarFunction patches and ThinLTO Support

[aditya kumar via llvm-dev]

Thanks Johannes,
Just sent an email to llvm-dev with a starter assignment.

Aditya Kumar
Compiler Engineer


On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:52 PM Johannes Doerfert <
johannesdoerfert at gmail.com> wrote:

> CC'ed Aditya
>
> On 03/17, Ruijie Fang via llvm-dev wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm Ruijie Fang, currently a 1st-year undergraduate at Princeton
> > University, majoring in Computer Science.
> >
> > I am writing to to express my interest in the Google Summer of Code
> > project: Improve MergeFunctions to incorporate MergeSimilarFunction
> > patches and ThinLTO Support.
> >
> > I've read the LCTES'14 paper and found it quite interesting and
> > comprehensible. I've also went as far as starting to read the source
> > code for the stack of patches listed on the LLVM GSoC website. I'm
> > wondering if anyone could provide some advice/tips on getting started
> > on this project, or writing my project proposal. I'm also in contact
> > with the project mentor, Aditya Kumar --- I'm also posting here per
> > his request and for additional input.
> >
> > ( A bit about myself: I am taking an LLVM-based compilers course
> > (COS320 [1]) this semester; I'm doing well in the course and enjoyed
> > writing compiler-related projects. A few years back, I was a research
> > assistant at Temple University's CS department working on
> > fault-tolerant parallel programming on distributed shared memory using
> > tuple spaces. So I have a bit of prior experience programming large,
> > production-quality, systems code in C/C++. Besides that, I'm also
> > fluent in OCaml (which our compilers course uses), and a few other
> > languages, including familiarity with LLVM IR and x86/ARM assembly.
> > My GitHub account is at https://github.com/thefangbear and
> > https://github.com/ruijiefang.)
> >
> > Thank you, and looking forward to replies!
> >
> > [1]: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring20/cos320/
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Ruijie Fang
> > ruijief at princeton.edu
> >
> >
> > --
> > RJF
> > ruijief at princeton.edu
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> --
>
> Johannes Doerfert
> Researcher
>
> Argonne National Laboratory
> Lemont, IL 60439, USA
>
> jdoerfert at anl.gov
>
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