[pypy-dev] Re: inquiry: phd positions

[Jakob Praher]

Carl Friedrich Bolz schrieb:
> Hi Jakob!
> 
> Jakob Praher <jp at hapra.at> writes:
>> my name is Jakob Praher. I am located in Linz, Austria. Currently I am
>> finishing my master thesis, which is about developing an aspect
>> oriented dynamic bytecode instrumentation framework for program
>> analysis on top of LLVM. I am very interested to work in that area as
>> a PHd student. From your website I know you are also working on an
>> LLVM backend.
> 
> Well, yes. But an LLVM backend in PyPy lingo is different from an LLVM 
> backend in LLVM lingo :-). The latter would be a backend to LLVM that 
> targets a certain CPU architecture. But it is really the other way 
> round: we have a backend that produces _LLVM_ code out of our own IL.

Yes :-) I just wanted to point out that I have some knowledge of the 
LLVM infrastructure and that I was using the JIT for my own project 
quite substantially. While there are many areas where still need a lot 
of work to understand, I am very interested in projects like yours and 
so I just wanted to ask. LLVM lacks symbolic information (hence 
lowlevel), which makes it impossible to be used as a first class IL for 
a project like pypy. I will have a look at your IL.

> 
> No clue about the Ph.D., sorry.
Never mind. Thanks for your reply.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Carl Friedrich
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