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[Paul Rubin]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
> Sounds like premature optimization.  Speed "things" up?  What things?
> How long is it taking now to load the modules you are loading?  Even
> the wxPython demo takes only a few seconds to load on a decent
> machine, and that's loading a *heck* of a lot of stuff.  

I know that whenever I start IDLE and it's not already cached, it
takes a significant amount of time, and that doesn't even use
wxPython.