These things still need attention:
Note: Any branches that are not intended to continue work should be removed before leaving the sprint. DONE - TP
Many tests are showing refcount leaks as of Saturday; Tim suspects the new exception code.
Coverity's overnight (Saturday/Sunday) run shows a few new NULL complaints; need to investigate. DONE - TP
The hotbuf branch will be completed after the sprint. I want to implement common parsing patterns (line delimited, netstrings) in C (MartinBlais).
- The patch implementing optimizing out "if 0" still needs review.
- Andrew Dalke has experimented with optimizing some common cases in argument parsing, which looks very promising, but needs further attention.
Internal string->object parsing routines (int(), float(), etc) need a way to bound the portion of the string they'll look at. This is partly bugfix, since passing a buffer object to such a Python-level routine results in anything from nonsense to segfaults now.
Tim intends to continue work on the tim-exc_sanity branch.
- Ran out of time before getting to most of the "speed function calls" patches. Since any speedup in that area would benefit almost all users, they're still well worth pursuing.