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- Improving the decimal module by implementing portions in C
- Investigate whether RPython offers sufficient speedup over the regular CPython interpreter to replace tailored C and C++ code in MMP gaming applications
- Implement an ordered dictionary in both C and Python
- Implement data-structure-specific algorithms, which rely heavily on certain data structures, as RPython
- Adding an iterator interface (similar to re.finditer) to the struct module
Further refine the PyPy LLVM back end to improve general execution speeds
Offer the PyPy team a sprint venue to continue their development work on Python implementations written in Python
- Create a string subtype that provides lazy slicing without copying
- Implement many improvements in the Python Package Index