[jruby-dev] GSoC 2014

2014-02-12 Thread Andrea Francesco Iuorio
Good morning, i' m a student in Computer Science and i could be interested in one of your projects for the Google Summer of Code. I have some experience with compilers and virtual machines since my thesis project involved the creation of a compiler for the JVM and i want to improve my skills par

Re: [jruby-dev] GSoC 2014

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Seaton
Hello Andrea, If you'd like to chat about the Truffle project, chat to me on Skype (chrisgrahamseaton), Google Chat (chrisgsea...@gmail.com) or JRuby IRC and I'll give you some more details. Chris On 12 February 2014 12:56, Andrea Francesco Iuorio < andreafrancesco.iuo...@outlook.com> wrote: >

Re: [jruby-dev] GSoC 2014

2014-02-12 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
It's largely up to you which of the two projects sounds more interesting, but Chris (already replied) or Subbu (probably will reply soon) are your contacts for Truffle and IR, respectively. I would say that from a compiler perspective, IR probably has more work and subprojects for you to help with,

Re: [jruby-dev] GSoC 2014

2014-02-12 Thread Subramanya Sastry
Hi Andrea, A quick overview of the Intermediate Representation for JRuby before talking about possible projects. This IR has been designed with the following goals in mind: 1. Capture Ruby semantics as accurately as possible without losing information. 2. Expose primitive operations (ex: a const