Hello, I am just trying to settle down on my PhD Computer Science dissertation topic. I want something low-level, compiler related, and more so useful/practical. I am considering region-based memory management, to show memory efficiency and safety. For imperative languages, such as c, this is rather difficult from static-analysis alone (e.g. aliasing and weak-typing). However, I do believe region-based management is possible. If I were to take something of this nature on for my topic, would it be valuable research, and is it even worth the effort? I am by far any kind of compiler guru, and figured you all might know best.
The other option, would be to implement such concepts in a research language, which can still be interesting, but I'm not sure how practical. -Matt
