[Python-Dev] requirements for moving __import__ over to importlib?

[Paul Moore]

On 7 February 2012 20:49, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Well, import time is so important that the Mercurial developers have
> written an on-demand import mechanism, to reduce the latency of
> command-line operations.

One question here, I guess - does the importlib integration do
anything to make writing on-demand import mechanisms easier (I'd
suspect not, but you never know...) If it did, then performance issues
might be somewhat less of a sticking point, as usual depending on use
cases.

Paul.