RFC: startup time - again

[David Cournapeau]

David Cournapeau wrote:
> By quickly grepping into the bzr sources, I
> could get a python script which does nothing but importing the modules I
> got, and it already takes 1/3 of the time taken by bzr rocks.
>   

Sorry the number are wrong: the script doing only imports from the
stdlib takes half-3/5 of the time taken by bzr rocks (~150 for import
only vs ~270 ms for bzr rocks; bzr.dev is slightly faster, around 10 %).

cheers,

David