llvm dev - Mar 2017 - GSOC ThinLTO Proposal

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.

Thanks!
- Charles Saternos
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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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Hi Charles,

Thanks for your interest in ThinLTO! Sorry for the late response. I agree
with Vassil, you can pick the one that is of most interest to you and go
ahead and submit a proposal. I think for the two possibilities you
discussed with Mehdi, it depends on whether you want to work on performance
tuning or not. I'm not sure which type of build statistics Mehdi was
suggesting, but likely it is something useful that we are lacking currently!

Thanks,
Teresa

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 4:01 AM, Vassil Vassilev via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 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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