Faster CPython

Contents:

• FAT Python
• Everything in Python is mutable
• Optimizations
• Python bytecode
• Python C API
• AST Optimizers
• Old AST Optimizer
• Register-based Virtual Machine for Python
• Read-only Python
• History of Python optimizations
• Misc
• Kill the GIL?
• Implementations of Python
• Benchmarks
• PEP 509: Add a private version to dict
• PEP 510: Specialized functions with guards
• PEP 511: API for AST transformers
• Random notes about PyPy
• Talks
• Links