RFC: startup time - again

[David Cournapeau]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> Fixing import times tends to be Whack-a-mole because making one module
> lazily import things it doesn't need, just shows another one in the
> chain that *does the same thing*.

Yes, I know it is quite frustrating, and not so easy  to fix in python.
It takes quite some time to get to a certain stage, and it takes one
line to get back to square one.

Going back to hg vs bzr, are the mechanisms for lazy import in hg and
bzr vastly different ? Or the difference mostly lies in some modules
that bzr depends on and hg does not ?

cheers,

David