Bzr's startup time

[TK Soh]

On 6/26/06, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 26 Jun 2006, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr> wrote:
>
> > I think the large number of python imports at the beginning of
> > builtins.py is also a problem.
>
> Well, one instance of a problem that we generally tend to load
> everything.

I had a brief attempt to port Mercurial's demandload.py into bzr,
which seemed to improve the speed. Unfortunately I hit the wall on the
decorators stuff and things are on hold indefinately.