Add Ayokunle Amodu to the contributors list (#398)

* add ayokunle to team

* update post

* Update contributors.yml with new contributor details

* Update contributor details in contributors.yml

* add names to make spell checker happy

* resize photo

* optimize image for webp

Author: ayokunle321

.github/actions/spelling/expect.txt

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 Akad
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+Amodu
+amodu
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+Ayokunle
+ayokunle
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 Bassiouni
 bassiouni
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 Medhane
 medhane
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+MLIR
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 Neuromorphic
 neuromorphic

_data/contributors.yml

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 #                                     TEAM                                     #
 ################################################################################
 
+- name: Ayokunle Amodu
+  info: "C++ Alliance Fellowship 2026 Contributor"
+  photo: Ayokunle.jpg
+  email: ayokunle321@gmail.com
+  education: Bsc in Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada, 2022-2026
+  active: 1
+  projects:
+    - title: "Optimize Usage of Source Locations in Clang Modules"
+      status: Ongoing
+      description: |
+        This project aims to reduce memory pressure caused by duplicated source locations
+        in Clang's modular builds. In large-scale C++ projects, repeatedly including the
+        same headers across different modules can quickly exhaust Clang's 32-bit
+        source-location representation. Instead of switching to a more costly 64-bit
+        design, this project explores reusing existing source-location allocations through
+        an interval-mapping mechanism and careful coordination during module loading. The
+        work involves updating module deserialization, preserving diagnostic correctness,
+        and ensuring include-stack reconstruction remains transparent. If successful,
+        duplicated module inputs will no longer cause proportional growth in source-location
+        allocations, modular builds will complete without exhaustion, and Clang will scale
+        better for modern modular C++ codebases, all without requiring a disruptive global
+        change to the compiler.
+      proposal: /assets/docs/Ayokunle_Amodu_Proposal_2026.pdf
+      mentors: Vassil Vassilev, Aaron Jomy
+
 - name: Ezzeldin Ibrahim
   photo: Ezz.jpg
   info: "C++ Alliance Fellowship 2026 Contributor"

_pages/team/ayokunle-amodu.md

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+---
+title: "Compiler Research - Team - Ayokunle Amodu"
+layout: gridlay
+excerpt: "Compiler Research: Team members"
+sitemap: false
+permalink: /team/AyokunleAmodu
+email: ayokunle321@gmail.com
+---
+
+{% include team-profile.html %}

_posts/2026-05-19-optimize-usage-of-source-locations-in-source-modules.md

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+---
+title: "Optimize Usage of Source Locations in Clang Modules"
+layout: post
+excerpt: "Reducing source-location memory pressure in modular C++ builds through allocation reuse and interval mapping."
+sitemap: false
+author: Ayokunle Amodu
+permalink: blogs/optimize_source_locations_clang_modules_Ayokunle_Amodu_blog/
+thumbnail_image: /images/cppalliance-logo.svg
+date: 2026-05-20
+tags: clang llvm modules source-locations cppalliance
+---
+
+{% include dual-banner.html
+left_logo="/images/cppalliance-logo.svg"
+right_logo="/images/cr-logo.png"
+caption=""
+height="20vh" %}
+
+## Introduction
+
+Hi everyone! I am Ayokunle Amodu, joining the Compiler Research team as a CppAlliance
+Fellow for the 2026 cycle. I am an MLIR geek at heart. Most of my compiler work has
+lived in the middle end, progressive lowering. I love seeing how high-level structure 
+survives a full lowering chain and still means something at the bottom.
+
+This project is front-end territory, not my typical residence, but being a comp arch
+kid who has spent time with RISC-V assembly means a 32-bit space running out of room
+is a very familiar kind of problem. Working under Vassil Vassilev with real upstream
+review as the target is exactly the kind of opportunity I wanted.
+
+## The Problem
+
+Clang tracks every position in source code as a 32-bit offset into a global address
+space managed by `SourceManager`. That space is finite, and in large modular builds it
+fills up faster than you would expect. The issue is not the size of the representation
+itself. It is that when multiple modules include the same headers, Clang has no memory
+of having already mapped those files and simply maps them again. The address space
+grows with the number of modules rather than the number of unique files, and once it
+runs out, the build fails.
+
+The community looked seriously at widening `SourceLocation` to 64 bits to buy more
+room, but the proposal did not land. The concern was legitimate: `SourceLocation` is
+embedded across a huge number of AST nodes, so making it bigger raises memory usage
+for every build, not just the ones actually hitting the limit. It is a global cost for
+a problem that has a much more local cause.
+
+## The Approach
+
+The core idea is to introduce deduplication at the point of allocation. Before
+assigning a new region for a module's input files, we check whether those files have
+already been allocated and reuse the existing range if they have. This keeps the
+address space from growing proportionally with module count and lets it scale with
+unique content instead.
+
+The work starts with a `DenseMap`-based prototype to validate the concept and confirm
+the numbers move in the right direction. From there it extends to an
+`llvm::IntervalMap` design that handles more complex scenarios, including cases where
+different modules serialize different amounts of location data for the same file.
+Alongside the implementation, the project covers diagnostic correctness, include-stack
+reconstruction, and upstream patch preparation for LLVM review.
+
+## What We Hope to Achieve
+
+If this works the way we expect, large modular builds that are currently approaching
+the limit will complete without exhaustion. Duplicated headers stop eating into the
+address space, diagnostics stay correct, and the fix is local enough that nothing
+else in the compiler has to change. The address space scales with unique content
+instead of module count.
+
+## Relevant Links
+
+- [LLVM Discourse: Revisiting 64-bit source locations](https://discourse.llvm.org/t/revisiting-64-bit-source-locations/86556)
+- [LLVM Discourse: RFC: An opt-in CMake option for 64-bit Source Location](https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-an-opt-in-cmake-option-for-64-bit-source-location/87538)
+
+May the blessings of the Dragon be with us.