I don't understand this โ€“ why would you import a package into your code that you weren't using?
Lucas Beyer (bl16)
 @giffmana
Sep 13
So it turns out people who care about performance already turn all Python imports into local ones under the hood: both Hudson River Trading, and Meta's production python auto lazy import:
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Replying to @hammer_mt
could it be the the same script, depending on the control flow will not activate all path at every runtime?

Oct 9, 2025 ยท 10:52 AM UTC

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Replying to @MaximeRivest
Oh I guess so. When they say 'performance' do they mean it takes a while to deploy? I didn't think imports slowed down execution much.
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