[Soot-list] Seeking proposals for Google Summer Of Code projects

[Patrick Lam]

Well, then you have race conditions. We've expended some effort over the 
past 13 years on this problem, so it might be difficult to expect a 
student to solve this problem over a summer...

It's also not completely clear where the bodies get loaded by Spark. I 
tried to look that up once, but got confused.

pat

On 02/27/13 10:50, Marc-Andre Laverdiere-Papineau wrote:
> Really? Interesting.
> First, we could multithread it - one class body loaded per thread would
> be a good start.
>
> There has been many ideas thrown around for having things cached and the
> like. But I haven't profiled it to see the hotspots - has anybody done that?
>
> I think that would be a nice GSOC.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
> Doctorant - PhD Candidate
>
> On 13-02-27 10:47 AM, Patrick Lam wrote:
>> I think that most of the processing time for Spark is not Spark itself
>> but jimplification of its input. Faster jimplification could be a
>> potential SoC project, but I'm not really sure about how to do it.
>>
>> pat
>>
>> On 02/27/13 10:46, Marc-Andre Laverdiere-Papineau wrote:
>>> Thanks for your input. Do you think we can isolate a subset?
>>> Spark comes to mind as probably where people would like to see speedups :)
>>>
>>> Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
>>> Doctorant - PhD Candidate
>>>
>>> On 13-02-27 09:47 AM, Patrick Lam wrote:
>>>> (From personal experience) I think that's too hard as a summer project
>>>> for a student.
>>>>
>>>> On 02/27/13 08:12, Marc-Andre Laverdiere-Papineau wrote:
>>>>> I was forgetting the obvious: parallelization of the the code base.
>>>>>
>>>>> Right now, Soot works in single-threaded mode. That gives a long long
>>>>> processing time for Spark and other phases. We should have a way to
>>>>> parallelize things.
>>>>>
>>>>> Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
>>>>> Doctorant - PhD Candidate
>>>>>
>>>>> On 13-02-14 01:36 PM, Eric Bodden wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Google has just put up  their webpage for the 2013 Summer of Code:
>>>>>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to solicit a few ideas for projects that summer students
>>>>>> could work on. Please fill in your ideas here:
>>>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/19CVbaPeqJHQm8XwSGBnK0RKn1XMRwmBoxODJIOIvD5U/edit#
>>>>>> Also indicate if you would be willing to supervise the project.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My plan is to see if we get a good set of proposals and if we do then
>>>>>> apply for participation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Eric
>>>>>>
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