* [ 1479611 ] speed up function calls * [ 1442927 ] PyLong_FromString optimization * [ 1366311 ] SRE engine do not release the GIL * [ 1359618 ] Speed charmap encoder * [ 1353872 ] a faster Modulefinder (Related to py2exe runtime performance) * [ 1346238 ] A constant folding optimization pass for the AST * [ 1346214 ] Better dead code elimination for the AST compiler * [ 1337051 ] remove 4 ints from PyFrameObject * [ 1281707 ] Speed up gzip.readline (~40%) * [ 1243730 ] Big speedup in email message parsing * [ 1243654 ] Faster output if message already has a boundary * [ 1145039 ] Remove some invariant conditions and assert in ceval * [ 1107887 ] Speed up function calls/can add more introspection info * [ 936813 ] fast modular exponentiation