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[Julien <spautz.julien@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you want to work on a desktop app you should definitely use Vala. 
The language is very easy to learn and our devs or people on #vala will 
help you if you ask kindly.

If you haven't seen this already, here are examples for synchronizing 
threads and communication between threads.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Vala/ThreadingSamples

Thanks for wanting to contribute and good luck with your project!

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Lochlan Bunn <loklaan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> For the next few months I am to base a uni project on parallelizing 
> an existing program (or part of). I'd like to use this chance to 
> contribute something for the elementary project.
>
> So, are there an elementary/community app maintainers that would know 
> of some task that would benefit from being parallel? It would be 
> better if the kind of task had significant improvement potential. If 
> you're not sure about the potential, I would still be interesting in 
> being contacted.
>
> Past reading documentation for vala, I'm not at all experienced in 
> using the language. But any memory model and parallelization specific 
> problems I find, I could approach the vala community. If you're 
> suggestion is using C and pthreads, then that could actually be 
> better for both this projects requirements and depth of contributed 
> performance gain.
>
> Thanks for reading. I hope to hear back from some people!