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Hi, Nick > There are two administrative questions: which organization should mentor > these projects and in which source tree should the result be included? > There will be substantial amount of code that will be specific for Plan > 9/Inferno, and probably it will not be welcome in LLVM tree. On the > other hand, a student may require mentoring by people from both > projects.

> There is a high maintenance cost to having backends in the tree (every > codegen change requires updating all backends). Adding stuff that > noone uses and can barely test is not goodness. So, proposing a backend for an unpopular architecture is not a good idea for GSoC project in general?

tis 2010-03-23 klockan 09:23 -0700 skrev Chris Lattner: > > Does all this count as opening LLVM to a new community? > > Yes, particularly if the Plan 9 folks are interested in incorporating the result into their distribution. There were some efforts to start a LLVM-based toolchain for Plan 9 during GSoC'09 (did not result in a project), and there are ongoing discussions to try it

mån 2010-03-22 klockan 17:23 -0700 skrev Chris Lattner: > We generally prefer for GSoC projects that are useful to a broad range > of people or that opens llvm to a new community. My idea was to propose bringing LLVM to Inferno OS (the complement project of Plan 9 from Bell Labs). This OS has a virtual machine (called Dis) included in the kernel, which is the only option to write