Pending:
[http://www.python.org/sf/1492828 [ 1492828 ] ] Improvements to ceval.c
[http://www.python.org/sf/1366311 [ 1366311 ] ] SRE engine do not release the GIL
[http://www.python.org/sf/1359618 [ 1359618 ] ] Speed charmap encoder
[http://www.python.org/sf/1353872 [ 1353872 ] ] a faster Modulefinder (Related to py2exe runtime performance)
[http://www.python.org/sf/1346238 [ 1346238 ] ] A constant folding optimization pass for the AST
[http://www.python.org/sf/1346214 [ 1346214 ] ] Better dead code elimination for the AST compiler
[http://www.python.org/sf/1243730 [ 1243730 ] ] Big speedup in email message parsing
[http://www.python.org/sf/1243654 [ 1243654 ] ] Faster output if message already has a boundary
[http://www.python.org/sf/1145039 [ 1145039 ] ] Remove some invariant conditions and assert in ceval
[http://www.python.org/sf/1107887 [ 1107887 ] ] Speed up function calls/can add more introspection info
[http://www.python.org/sf/936813 [ 936813 ] ] fast modular exponentiation
[http://www.python.org/sf/923643 [ 923643 ] ] long <-> byte-string conversion
[http://www.python.org/sf/921466 [ 921466 ] ] Reduce number of open calls on startup
[http://www.python.org/sf/813436 [ 813436 ] ] Scalable zipfile extension
[http://www.python.org/sf/738094 [ 738094 ] ] for i in range(N) optimization
Related to [http://www.python.org/sf/1472639 [ 1472639 ] ] make range be xrange
Addressed:
[http://www.python.org/sf/1442927 [ 1442927 ] ] PyLong_FromString optimization
[http://www.python.org/sf/1335972 [ 1335972] ] combo speedup and bugfix for string->int conversion
[http://www.python.org/sf/876206 [ 876206 ] ] scary frame speed hacks
[http://www.python.org/sf/1479611 [ 1479611 ] ] speed up function calls
[http://www.python.org/sf/1281707 [ 1281707 ] ] Speed up gzip.readline (~40%)
[http://www.python.org/sf/876193 [ 876193 ] ] reorganize, extend function call optimizations
[http://www.python.org/sf/1337051 [ 1337051 ] ] remove 4 ints from PyFrameObject