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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...

Hi Vishal, Ruijie, Thanks for your interest in the project. To get started, the first task would be to merge the 5 patches on top of trunk llvm. The list of patches are listed in the project description: http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html#llvm_mergesim Please create an account in llvm phabricator (reviews.llvm.org) if you haven't already, and put your patches there. Let me know if you have