[Vala] GSOC Idea: LLVM Backend?

[Kenny Micklas <kmicklas gmail com>]

Hi all,

I am a student at Brown University interested in participating in Google
Summer of Code. I am a Vala enthusiast and I have always been interested in
the idea of writing an LLVM code generator for valac. The principle
benefits of this would be decoupling Vala from C, increased flexibility in
the generated code, vastly better compile times, and potentially better
runtime performance too.

I know this is not one of the suggested GSOC ideas for GNOME, but I was
wondering if the Vala team would think this is a good project, and whether
or not there would be an appropriate mentor. If so, I will write up a full
proposal for GSOC.

Thanks,
Ken Micklas