RFC: startup time - again

[David Cournapeau]

Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>
> So it's time to say that apriori bzr on windows is slow and unusable?
> Py2exed bzr.exe has faster startup time than pure python bzr on windows,
> but if you throw away test suite for library.zip it's also a bit faster.
>
> I found there is too much small things that could make bzr.exe a bit
> faster.
> And each of them seems too small, but in sum they are noticeable win.

I am not claiming that the comparison is really meaningful, but as a
comparison point, for numpy, outside one or two things, that's the small
things which mattered: 5% here, 4% there.

cheers,

David