[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] 2.6 and 3.0 tasks

[Christian Heimes]

Collin Winter wrote:
> The biggest win in terms of performance would be to reimplement the
> pattern matching engine used by the fixers.: it by far dominates the
> running time, taking 99+% of the runtime when I ran 2to3 over Twisted,
> for example. The current design is a heavily-recursive system, and as
> such bombs out when it encounters, e.g., files with a thousand
> assignment statements in a row. I'd also like something more
> expressive: the current DSL can't express recursive patterns.

Do you have time to mentor a GSoC project? Or can you mentor a mentor
...? :)

Christian