Faster CPython

Contents:

• Projects to optimize CPython 3.7
• Projects to optimize CPython 3.6
• 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
• Random notes about PyPy
• Talks
• Links