imports and python locking

[Aaron Bentley]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> Another approach is to use something like the attached hook to defer
> imports.

Hmm.  We were assuming that it was cheap to import something that was
already imported, because it's a no-op.  I don't properly understand why
that's not cheap.  Does even testing whether a module is loaded invoke
the futex?

Aaron
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