Slow startup?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Jo Vermeulen wrote:

> bzrlib.osutils.username() calls auto_user_id() which takes the most time. And the slowest part of 
> this method is a socket.getfqdn call at the end, just as the second parameter to t.write is.

sounds a little like it could be related to this

    http://python.org/sf/774751

which might have been fixed in OS X 10.3.8.

    http://www.shearersoftware.com/personal/weblog/2005/02/25/slowdown-in-mac-os-x-python-ftplib-fixed

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