[pypy-dev] Re: inquiry: phd positions

[Jakob Praher]

Hi Jacob,

thank you for your support.
Looks very interesting to hear that. What are you currently working on? 
AFAICT you are employed by strakt.com. Are you working on pypy as a 
research project?

Jacob Hallen schrieb:
> - Modularisation of the source language, allowing expansion and contraction of 
> the available syntax and semantics.
>   
> - Adaption of the platform to handle multiple source languages.
>
>   
That is insteresting, especially when supporting other dynamic languages.
> -Use of the Pypy architecture for distributed computing, multiprocessing and 
> handling of security issues at interpreter level.
>   
Ah yes. I recently attended a guest lecture by Michael Franz. He is a 
professor at University Irvine in California. They are implementing MAC 
based security labels for virtual machines. He managed to bring the 
pefromance loss of labeling down to 6 % of the whole execution time. 
Given the fact that SeLinux for instance already supports MAC, MAC can 
be an interesting concept to bring to virtual machines as well.
> - Various aspects of code generation including translation, JIT 
> specialisation, garbage collection and backend production.
>   
Interesting.
> - Pypy integration with existing platforms, like Java and CLI.
>   
Could be interesting too. Especially Java plans on integrating an 
invokedynamic instruction. This makes it possible to design more 
efficient code generators. But I am not really 100 % sure, how this will 
look like.
>
> Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf is a member of the project, with 
> professor Leuchel being formally responsible. In practice, it is Armin Rigo 
> and Michael Hudson who are financed to be working on Pypy. As of this week 
> Carl Friedrich Boltz will be doing his Bachelor of Science there, focusing on 
> Pypy.
>   
Thats interesting to hear.
> While professor Leuchel is a very open minded person, who seems to enjoy 
> giving people the liberty to pursue the kind of research they are interested 
> in, I have no clue as to what the policy of the CS department or the 
> university are concerning the acceptance of PhD students. I hope what I have 
> said will help you get started on your own investigation.
>   
Oh great.  Thanks for the pointers. The problem I am facing is that PhD 
slots are pretty scarce and so there are often many people already 
waiting for one :-)
> In the meantime, I hope you will have time to get acquainted with the code 
> base. You are also welcome to join one of our sprints, where you will get a 
> chance to collaborate with the developers on specific issues. The most 
> convenient place for you in the reasonably near future will probably be the 
> sprint right after Europython at CERN in Switzerland. We do have an open 
> sprint in Japan before that, but it is a long way to travel and we will 
> probably have as many newcomers as we can cope with.
>
>   
I will surely look at the project code base, no matter how this turns 
out. Thank you.
> Best of luck
>
> Jacob Hallén
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