Re: Octave and GSOC'2008

[John Swensen]

On Feb 26, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> 1) Make a list of suggested projects.
> 2) Do the paper work to actually apply.
>
> So, it doesn't seem like that much work...
>
> Søren

I have a suggestion for a project idea, based on previous mailing list  
postings.  A while back, Muthiah Annamalai suggested using LLVM to  
implement JIT for Octave.  John Eaton commented how it would be a big  
project, mostly due to type inferencing.  I was wondering if it would  
be a reasonable as a project for GSOC to integrate LLVM in a very  
limited sense, i.e. only providing JIT for integer indexed loops.   
While this may seem like a very limited use of LLVM, it would probably  
provide key insights into how something like LLVM could be integrated  
more fully into Octave, and it seems like a project that could be  
completed in a summer's worth of work.

John Swensen