New developer introduction

[Andrew Bennetts]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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>
> I know at our last sprint Andrew Bennetts did some testing about python's odd
> search for modules. IIRC he found that from a cold start, a plain 'bzr status'
> was taking 7s. Copying the open and stat calls (as reported by strace) took
> 3s.  (So loading modules was taking 50% of a cold-stat test.) However, when he
> streamlined it it still took 2.7s.

That's correct.

-Andrew.