GSOC slide from Mike Rylander

Signed-off-by: Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com>

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 * *Project*: Optimize Evergreen: Convert PL/Perl-based PostgreSQL stored procedures to PL/SQL or PL/C
 * *Mentor*: Mike Rylander
 
+Welcome, Swenyu Duan from Peking University! (Not actually here...)
+
+* *IRC:* stormdsy
+* *email:* dsy88 at sina dot com
+
+*Problem:* Evergreen makes use of many PL/Perl Postgres stored
+procedures such as these http://goo.gl/nHVYA[normalization
+routines].  Many of these are very stable, and would benefit from
+being reimplemented in a faster language -- PL/SQL if particularly
+simple or query-heavy, or PL/C if more complicated or data-processing
+intensive. Your mission is to identify and address performance
+bottlenecks. (This is an excellent opportunity to coordinate your
+efforts with another student working on stress and regression
+testing!)