From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5771 invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2008 00:04:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 5759 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Mar 2008 00:04:34 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ceres.inf.ufsc.br (HELO ceres.inf.ufsc.br) (150.162.60.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:04:14 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.inf.ufsc.br [127.0.0.1]) by ceres.inf.ufsc.br (Departamento de Informatica e Estatistica (INE/CTC/UFSC)) with ESMTP id 9D9946DA52 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:04:10 -0300 (BRT) Received: from ceres.inf.ufsc.br ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ceres.inf.ufsc.br [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id O-hRVF3JOMnP for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:04:06 -0300 (BRT) Received: from [192.168.0.150] (unknown [201.82.17.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: danielpv@inf.ufsc.br) by ceres.inf.ufsc.br (Departamento de Informatica e Estatistica (INE/CTC/UFSC)) with ESMTP id 69E9C6DA27 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:04:06 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: <47E6EFEC.5030702@inf.ufsc.br> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:04:00 -0000 From: "Daniel P. Volpato" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: GSoC - GCC Multithreaded linker Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-03/txt/msg00235.txt.bz2 Hi all, I'm interested in applying for Google Summer of Code and wanted to work in some project in the area of parallel/multi-core programming. Looking through the GCC GSoC Wiki page I found a subject that sounds really interesting to me in the "Speed Up" section: Multithreaded linker. Could anyone give me more information about this, since it lacks a description in the wiki? The idea is to parallelize the current linker or build one from scratch. What are the requirements? Thanks, Daniel PS: Sorry if this isn't the appropriate mailing list for this question, but I couldn't find a better one ;)