GSoC Questions

[Nicholas Krause]

Greetings Martin,

I won't be applied but it was good to see you at least got some possible 
ideas out of
my research from the make parts. Two questions as related to GSoC, in 
terms of
long term planning for my work:

1. *Implement something similar to Clang's/-ftime-trace/*is in my view 
the most important project
for GCC multi-threading as having a real profiler in gcc proper is the 
biggest bottleneck. Finding
shared state and having heuristics is a real thorn without it. Is the 
goal just to support it as a
feature similar to Clang or is this intended to be a real profiler, as 
it seems so?

2.*Create a general jobserver client/server library *If its planning to 
be a library then your
probably hooking it into the frontends for C/C++.  Not sure who the 
maintainer for that is
but is he aware of the possible changes? It may be good to either have 
him as another
mentor or someone to ask about the frontend parts unless you or Martin 
Liska have
that knowledge.

Regards and good luck with GSoC,

Nick**