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...at it definitely can be useful. Just some ideas to add to the mix: One of the suggestions is to write a code-density optimizer for the ARM backend. For an interesting alternative, try optimizing for power consumption instead. If you want something super researchy, try doing this for one of the clockless (asynchronous) ARM cores: http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARM996HS.html Another suggestion under "Miscellaneous Additions" was to write a new front-end for Java/OCaml/Forth. IMHO, reimplementing Java or OCaml from scratch is way too much work and a lot of that work is uninteresting...

Hello, Everyone LLVM recently was approved to take part in Google Summer of Code 2008. We welcome everyone to apply for this program. The list of ideas for (possible) projects is located at http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html. Surely you can suggest any other project, if you feel, that it definitely can be useful. Our common requirement for student is to submit proposal to LLVM Developers