In addition to the work Luke is doing there is Ra: http://www.milbo.users.sonic.net/ra
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Florian Gross <florian.s.gr...@web.de> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm currently working towards my Master's degree as a student of Computer > Science at the University of Saarbrücken and highly interested in compiler > construction, interpretation techniques, optimization, programming languages > and more. :) > > Two professors of my university approached me about an interesting project > just a few days ago: Developing a LLVM-based JIT compilation back-end for R. > The primary goal would be the generation of parallel / vectorized code, but > other ways of increasing performance might be very interesting as well. > > I've thought a bit about this and am now wondering if this would make sense > as a project for Google's Summer of Code program -- I have seen that the R > foundation was accepted as a mentoring organization in 2008 and has applied > to be one again in this year. > > I've already taken part in the SoC program thrice (working on Novell's > JScript.NET compiler and run-time environment in 2005, writing a debugger > for the Ruby programming language in 2006 and working on a detailed > specification for the Ruby programming language in 2007) and it has always > been a lot of fun and a great experience. One thing that was particularly > helpful was getting into contact with the development communities so easily. > > What do you folks think? Would this be of benefit to the R community? Would > it be a good candidate for this year's SoC installment? :) > > Also, if some thinking in this direction has already been done or if you > have any other pointers, please don't hesitate to reply! > > Thanks a lot in advance! > > Kind regards, > Florian Gross > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel