On improving the air-speed velocity of a Python

Abstract

At this years PyCon US, Google announced the Unladen Swallow project, which aims to speed up CPython by a factor of 5 on modern multi-core machines, while keeping source-code compatibility for both Python applications and extensions. In this orientation talk, veteran Pythoneer Fredrik Lundh will discuss where the project is today, what we've done this far, and what's coming up next. There may also be numbers, contrived benchmarks, and the occasional bad pun.