On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Csaba Hruska <csaba.hru...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I'm wondering about the topic of my gsoc project. [..] > I'm interested in these areas: > - improving cabal (more sophisticated dependency, multi version, compiler > support, etc) [..] > I like the idea of improving cabal, and one can definitely see the community benefit of work on such a pervasively used tool. > - Another idea is to improve GHC's new LLVM backend. [..] > I like this idea, but like you said, a number of people seem to be interested in working on the LLVM backend this summer, so it may be a crowded space and hard to coordinate. But anything that could expose more information about the shape of thunks and slot usage to LLVM could help a great deal with alias analysis, which is usually in LLVM the biggest barrier to reordering and rewriting. > - Another LLVM related idea is to create a framework to support writing > llvm passes in haskell, this should be based on existing llvm haskell > binding. [..] > I think this would be an amazing value-add for the LLVM backend, and might open the door to a whole new class of Haskell optimizations. > - I'm also interested in computer graphics. While this kind of project > could look really good, the community could not benefit from it. [..] > While I personally enjoy working on 3d graphics in general, it is hard to sell the community benefit. -Edward Kmett
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