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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> That same script imports bs4, as it happens. It still manages an
> overall startup time of just a quarter second.

Importing bs4 can take a few hundred msec on the cheap VPS that I use it
on.  So deferring it speeds the program startup by that much.