* [ 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 (this appears to be a bugfix and not a speed patch -jackd)
* [ 1337051 ] remove 4 ints from PyFrameObject (no speedup, just a small memory savings. Neal commented he is going to cleanup & revisit the patch later)
* [ 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