[Pythonmac-SIG] IDLE etc build from CVS

[Just van Rossum]

Jack Jansen wrote:

> These long startup times are something that's only started to bother
> me recently. If you run things with "pythonw -v" it seems that it's
> always the import of the first Carbon module that causes the delay.
> I'm not sure why it suddenly appeared, or at least suddenly became
> more noticeable.

I've noticed it, too, since fairly recently, and indeed with Carbon
modules. But I have also insane startup times with PyObjC apps and I was
already blaming my lack of disk space (and likely high fragmentation).
Maybe the two issues aren't even related. It's getting quite
irritating...

Just