RFC: startup time - again

[Andrew Bennetts]

Russel Winder wrote:
[...]
> "bzr rocks" is a very useful metric for instantaneous since it is clear
> that all it does is return a string, i.e. it is a variant of "Hello
> World" -- it can be implemented:
> 
> 	print "It sure does!"
> 
> So, a quick test:
> 
>         |> time bzr rocks
>         It sure does!
>         
>         real	0m0.520s
>         user	0m0.300s
>         sys	0m0.096s

That's a pretty slow “bzr rocks” time.  Is “bzr --no-plugins rocks” faster for
you?  It's possible that one or more of your installed plugins is doing a lot of
unnecessary work (e.g. importing lots of modules) every time you run bzr.

-Andrew.