Ishan Thilina Somasiri:
We are required to do a 8 months long project in our final
year. The project should consist of both a research and
development component and an implementation. Our group
is interested in areas such as,
* Information security
* Cloud
* Parallel computing
* Compilers
8 months is a lot of time, so projects like the projects of
Google Summer of Code risk being too much small.
Some smaller projects are:
- Use LLVM to Just-in-time compile just the longer running
compile-time functions (CTFE), for the LDC compiler (the
functions that run quickly at compile-time are better left to the
interpreter, because LLVM JIT has lot of overhead, it's not fast).
- Implement Windows exceptions for the LDC compiler.
- Implement efficiently the vector operations of the D language,
and related matters.
A larger and more rearch-y project is to try to plug Z3
(http://z3.codeplex.com/ ) in the D front-end to run some
contracts at compile-time. And generally to study how to improve
a fortified version of the D language ("Strong-D"?) to be used in
high integrity programming, where Ada/SPARK are used.
Another medium sized project is to use some parts of the C/C++
static analyser of Clang (http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/ ), to
create a similar tool for D-LDC.
Surely others will give you more ideas. Surely there is no lack
of stuff to work on, because compared to the universe of
tools/compilers for C/C++ the D ecosystem is almost a greenfield.
Bye,
bearophile
