On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 6:51 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 01:53:34PM +0100, Mark Shannon wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> CPython is slow. We all know that, yet little is done to fix it.
>
> I'd like to change that.
> I have a plan to speed up CPython by a factor of five over the next few
> years. But it needs funding.

I've noticed a lot of optimization-related b.p.o. issues created by
Mark, which is great. What happened with Mark's proposal here? Did the
funding issue get sorted?

I believe Guido has Mark contracting on Python performance through Microsoft?

-Greg