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		mark-r on Oct 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Implementation plan for speeding up CPython Having never contributed to an open source project, particularly one as popular and complex as Python, I'm not sure of the amount of justification necessary. Would I need to write a PEP?

pansa2 on Oct 21, 2020 | [–]

> Would I need to write a PEP?

Only if you want to change the language itself, AFAIK. Optimisations that don’t change behaviour shouldn’t require a PEP.

bastawhiz on Oct 21, 2020 | [–]

I contributed a small fix for a bug in CPython in 2012 or 2013 and it was fairly trivial.

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