gh-132952: Improve Python startup time by ~12% #132956
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This improves the time of a no-
site.py
startup by 12%, i.e.I'm not strongly of the opinion this should be merged (hence the draft PR), since there are probably all kinds of other places where "lazy importing" could be used to improve startup time that don't improve readability. On the other hand, it's a fairly large regression from 3.13.x that we may want to avoid.
python_startup_no_site
benchmark #132952