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

[Collin Winter]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> 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
>  ...? :)

I think I'd have time to mentor a GSoC project. Let's talk off-list about that.