[Sbcl-devel] Interested in GSoC Vectorized sequence operations project

[Nitika D. <nd...@gm...>]

Hello!

My name is Nitika Daga. I'm currently a second year student at UC Berkeley,
studying Computer Science. I'm interested in participating in GSoC with
SBCL this summer, especially the project involving vectorizing operations
using SSE intrinsics.  In one of my current CS classes, we just finished a
project that involved parallelization with SSE intrinsics (the project
involved performance optimization for matrix multiplying), which makes me
uniquely suited for this project. I also worked a bit in X86 assembly,
although not as much as I have in SSE intrinsics in C.

In terms of my general technical background I am experienced in Python,
Java, C, and Scheme. I have taken classes in data structures and machine
structures, both of which would help me in understanding how your compiler
works.

I'm currently in the process of filling out my student proposal for this
project, but I was hoping you all could provide some advice/further
information about this project that could help me, specifically some
concrete examples of kinds of operations you were hoping to vectorize.


Thank you!

Nitika Daga