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-<p>Sometimes creating new things is more fun that improving existing things.
+<p>Sometimes creating new things is more fun than improving existing things.
These projects tend to be more involved and perhaps require more work, but can
also be very rewarding.</p>
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-<li>Implement a global register allocator</li>
<li>Implement a better instruction selector</li>
<li>Implement support for the "switch" instruction without requiring the
lower-switches pass.</li>
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-<li>Write a new frontend for some language (Java? OCaml? Forth?)</li>
+<li>Port the <A HREF="http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/">Bigloo</A>
+Scheme compiler, from Manuel Serrano at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, to
+output LLVM bytecode. It seems that it can already output .NET
+bytecode, JVM bytecode, and C, so LLVM would ostensibly be another good
+candidate.</li>
+<li>Write a new frontend for some other language (Java? OCaml? Forth?)</li>
<li>Write a new backend for a target (IA64? MIPS? MMIX?)</li>
<li>Random test vector generator: Use a C grammar to generate random C code;
run it through llvm-gcc, then run a random set of passes on it using opt.