Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Pichler, BSc. Address: Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria Building: Computer Science Building (S3) Room: 202 Phone: + 43-732-2468-4349 Fax: + 43-732-2468-4345 Email: christoph.pichler@jku.at

Research

Research Interests

• Compilers and Interpreters
• Intermediate Representations
• Native and Managed Execution

Projects

• Sulong (=GraalVM LLVM Runtime)
• 2019: Debugging support: evaluation of (source level, i.e. C/C++) watch expressions (released in GraalVM 20)
• 2020 – 2021: Truffle Interoperability between C++ and other Truffle languages (released in GraalVM 21.2)
• 2021 – 2022: Executing Swift on GraalVM via LLVM/Sulong (finished, not released yet)
• since 2022: Interoperability between execution modes – combining Sulong with native execution

Presentations

• EuroLLVM 2022: [Video, Slides]
  Extending Sulong (an LLVM bitcode runtime) for cross-language interoperability between C++/Swift and Java, JavaScript or Python
  Student Talk, 2022 European LLVM Developers' Meeting (EuroLLVM 2022), May 10-11, 2022, London, United Kingdom
• CGO 2023: [Extended Abstract, Poster]
  Interoperability between Execution Modes on GraalVM
  Student Research Competition, Int. Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO'23), Feb.25-Mar.1, 2023, Montreal, Canada

Publications

• (different context, thus not part of SSW)
  Thomas Grurl, Christoph Pichler, Jürgen Fuß, Robert Wille:
  Automatic Implementation and Evaluation of Error-Correcting Codes for Quantum Computing: An Open-Source Framework for Quantum Error Correction
  VLSID 2023, Hyderabad, India. arXiv

Teaching

• 2021, Winter term: Tutorium zu Softwareentwicklung 1
• 2022, Winter term: Tutorium zu Softwareentwicklung 1
• 2023, Summer term: Praktikum aus Softwareentwicklung 2