If I can't get the whole project done by YAPC::NA 2013 (which I am sure everybody here is willing to consider likely), then I'm going to try my best to get us as far as possible so we can have something impressive to demo at least.
Who knows, maybe we'll get lucky and be able to speed up some parts of Perl quite a bit in a year, or at least prove that it will be possible given X amount of effort.