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As noted in gh-117983, the import importlib.util can be triggered at interpreter startup under some circumstances, so adding threading makes it a potentially obligatory load. Lazy loading is not used in the stdlib, so this removes an unnecessary load for the majority of users and slightly increases the cost of the first lazily loaded module. An obligatory threading load breaks gevent, which monkeypatches the stdlib. Although unsupported, there doesn't seem to be an offsetting benefit to breaking their use case. For reference, here are benchmarks for the current main branch: ``` ❯ hyperfine -w 8 './python -c "import importlib.util"' Benchmark 1: ./python -c "import importlib.util" Time (mean ± σ): 9.7 ms ± 0.7 ms [User: 7.7 ms, System: 1.8 ms] Range (min … max): 8.4 ms … 13.1 ms 313 runs ``` And with this patch: ``` ❯ hyperfine -w 8 './python -c "import importlib.util"' Benchmark 1: ./python -c "import importlib.util" Time (mean ± σ): 8.4 ms ± 0.7 ms [User: 6.8 ms, System: 1.4 ms] Range (min … max): 7.2 ms … 11.7 ms 352 runs ``` Compare to: ``` ❯ hyperfine -w 8 './python -c pass' Benchmark 1: ./python -c pass Time (mean ± σ): 7.6 ms ± 0.6 ms [User: 5.9 ms, System: 1.6 ms] Range (min … max): 6.7 ms … 11.3 ms 390 runs ``` This roughly halves the import time of importlib.util. |
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