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Performance Good First Issues
Open issues about Performance from GitHub projects in every language. The list opens on the ones we rated beginner-friendly, and the subject's other names are matched too.
Performance
- Open issues
- 156k
- New this week
- 5.4k
- Nobody on it yet
- 140k
- Average difficulty
- 4.2/5
What this list is like
- Average annotated difficulty: 4.2/5 across 182,899 issues.
- 3% of 182,899 time estimates are one day or less.
Updated Nov 12, 2026.
About Performance
Performance work makes software faster or lighter: profiling, reducing memory use, caching and removing unnecessary work.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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netbox status: needs triage type: performance
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
netbox-community/netbox#23681 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
NVIDIA/hyperflare-inference#268 ·
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desktop edt not responding
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 83/100
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CPU update 1.31xOpenspeed-report
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 75/100
mw00/project-maya#961 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 80/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
Comfy-Org/comfy-kitchen#339 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100
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crash(-like) VT: Backend
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 77/100
contour-terminal/contour#2299 ·
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area: github-actions area: infrastructure area: tests benchmark ci community difficulty: easy dx enhancement good first issue hacktoberfest help wanted island: Perf Peak island: Test Atoll performance tech: docker tech: github-actions tech: javascript tech: postgres testing
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100
GiroCrab/GiroCrab#88 · 1 comment ·
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bug :lady_beetle: performance :zap:
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
mapbox/mapbox-gl-js#13752 · 1 comment ·
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jules
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
open-learning-exchange/myplanet#18753 · 1 comment ·
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jules
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
open-learning-exchange/myplanet#18752 · 1 comment ·
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preloader V2
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100
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jules
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
open-learning-exchange/myplanet#18690 · 3 comments ·
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bug category:backup
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 73/100
LanternOps/breeze#11743 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
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area: cli automation configuration contributing dev-tools developer-experience difficulty: easy dx enhancement good first issue help wanted island: CLI Cove island: Perf Peak local-development performance rank: 8 kyu tech: bun tech: typescript tech: vitest testing
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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ci performance
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
nanyx-lang/nanyx#706 ·
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area: engine area: infrastructure containers databases developer-experience devops difficulty: easy dx enhancement good first issue help wanted island: Engine Volcano island: Perf Peak performance rank: 7 kyu tech: docker tech: postgres tech: starlark tech: tilt testing
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
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area: engine area: infrastructure containers developer-experience devops difficulty: easy docker dx enhancement good first issue help wanted island: Engine Volcano island: Perf Peak performance rank: 8 kyu tech: docker tech: starlark tech: tilt testing windows
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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agents ai-coding area: cli automation dev-tools developer-experience difficulty: easy dx enhancement good first issue help wanted island: CLI Cove island: Perf Peak performance rank: 8 kyu tech: bun tech: tilt tech: typescript tech: vitest testing
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100
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area: engine area: infrastructure bug containers databases developer-experience difficulty: easy dx enhancement good first issue help wanted island: Engine Volcano island: Perf Peak performance rank: 7 kyu tech: bun tech: docker tech: prisma tech: starlark tech: tilt
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100
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bug documentation good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100
Maintainers usually reply within 4 days
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
connectrpc/connect-es#1877 ·
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area: docs difficulty: easy documentation good first issue help wanted performance v2.0.0
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
ranxianglei/billion-context#6256 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
ranxianglei/billion-context#6252 ·
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[factory:modern-web] Apply content-visibility: auto to Long Message Lists (content-visibility-auto)Open
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100
PaulKinlan/audio-feed#33 ·
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bug priority: medium
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
storytold/wordcraft#6284 · 1 comment ·
Maintainers usually reply within 2 days
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bug priority: medium
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
storytold/wordcraft#6283 · 1 comment ·
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area: benchmarks good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
European-XFEL/DAMNIT#627 · 8 comments ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
NVIDIA/nsight-python#88 · 1 comment ·
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help wanted
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
dewral/DewralMapEditor#87 ·
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area: cli area: doctor benchmark debugging developer-experience difficulty: easy dx good first issue help wanted island: Doctor Reef island: Perf Peak javascript local-development performance rank: 8 kyu tech: javascript tech: react tech: typescript tech: vitest testing
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
roundcube/roundcubemail#10406 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 3 days
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benchmark help wanted
Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
Helldez/BigMoeOnEdge#548 ·
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bot-triaged oncall: cpu inductor
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 73/100
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Quadratic text encoding in `UnicodeMapEncoding` (`chars().count()` per iteration + `substr` O(i))Open
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
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performance priority: low
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 83/100
storytold/photocraft#13121 · 1 comment ·
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backlog performance priority: low
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
storytold/photocraft#13119 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 83/100
streaming-video-technology-alliance/common-media-library#632 ·
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Questions
- How many Performance issues are open here?
- 155,528 open issues: 5,435 opened in the last seven days, and 139,664 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
- Where do I start?
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