These are current tasks at the sprint. Also various people are evaluating patches from the ListOfPerformanceRelatedPatches, and initials record the participant(s) taking those resposibilities.

 * Patch list review DONE (see ListOfPerformanceRelatedPatches)

 * Continue function call speed enhancements. Neal Norwitz patch review. Zombie frames? TimPeters will continue.

 * Faster parsing of strings and bytes into int, long, and back. TimPeters: patch ready - needs clean-up

 * Buffer for use with network I/O MartinBlais working in blair-bytebuf branch --> sandbox? [Performance comparisons first]

 * Implement portions of the decimal module in C: GeorgBrandl and JackDeiderich

 * Create a PyInt64 type (for 32 bit machines) Evaluate source impact ...GvR: Not in 2.5! [/Deferred?]

 * Optimize methods in stringobject.c FredrikLundh + AndrewDalke

 * Allow selective removal of unused features such as profiling support DONE [/DeferredSuccesses?]

 * String benchmark DONE

 * Improve interpreter startup time, like in patch [SF]921466? GeorgBrandl

 * Patch that Skip wrote for a possible implementation of str.partition() which returns a string subclass with pointers to the slices instead of a full copy. Any subsequent string ops lazily evaluate the slice into a full string. [--> RaymondHettinger]

 * Build-out the collections module for optimized data structures: ordered dictionary: API? Use case?! red/black? pivot tbl? skip list: contribution? radix/crit-bit trees? ChristianTismer + RichardEmslie

 * Struct benchmark needs to be incorporated into pybench BobIppolito

 * Improve the API for timeit.py [SH to search python-dev and call Raymond Hettinger for details if necessary]

 * Update PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips Everyone can make suggestions SeanReifschneider + JohnBenediktsson

 * Evaluate the PEPs for optimizing global and attribute lookups

    PEP 266
    PEP 267
    PEP 280


 * Psyco improvements: JohnBenediktsson

   Support for generator expressions

   Support for nested scopes

   Support for more dictionary operations

   Speedup float arithmetic

   Support for more built-ins (e.g. int(), long(), float(), etc.)

   Upgrade for python 2.5

   Better tools for profiling psyco-ness of application

   Investigate usefulness of IVM (with aim to producing a more streamlined dispatch loop)

   LLVM backend

   Virtualized longs (for long longs)

   Virtualized slots (Ability to cache getattribute() values)

* Py3000: Make a wishlist for possible performance gains in Py3.0