16:03 <d1b2> <zx64> Is there a plan to add some form of lazy loading to the glasgow cli? e.g. commenting out the line from .applet import all from cli.py takes the no-op invocation time of python -m glasgow.cli down from 3.3 seconds to 1.2 seconds. Python 3.8 on Windows seems to spend an awful lot of time on nt.stat and winreg.OpenKey which seems to be partly attributed to the mimetypes module pulled in by aiohttp.

16:05 <jpa-> https://pypi.org/project/lazy-import/ might be one way to do that, it automatically loads the module first time it is actually accessed

16:59 <d1b2> <Attie> @zx64 i don't believe so... at present py3.8.2 on Linux takes ~550ms to run python -m glasgow.cli, so it's interesting to hear it's so much slower on your system / Windows

17:07 <d1b2> <Attie> doing a simple swap to use lazy-import (i.e: %s/^from \([^ ]\+\) import \(.\+\)$/\2 = lazy_module('\1.\2')/gc in vim) reduces startup to ~280ms

17:07 <d1b2> <Attie> ... but this also breaks glasgow run --help - i.e: no modules are listed

17:07 <d1b2> <Attie> (modules/applets)

17:08 <d1b2> <Attie> ... oh, actually this breaks everything, because of how the applets are loaded - e.g: glasgow run uart --help fails

17:08 <modwizcode> Yeah

17:08 <modwizcode> There's no way that's going to work properly

17:09 <d1b2> <Attie> [ could have sworn it worked just now, much to my surprise! ]

17:12 <d1b2> <Attie> so, in summary... no plans to do this, and it would require quite deep rework of how the applets are designed to put into practice

17:15 <modwizcode> incedentally what does %s in your vim command there do?

17:17 <agg> % is short for 1,$ i.e. "operate on the entire file", and s is the substitute command

17:17 <agg> so %s is "on the whole file, perform this substitution"

17:17 <modwizcode> oh I'm dumb I was looking at those two functions independently somehow

17:18 <d1b2> <zx64> You can also combo that with :bufdo (and autowrite) to apply it to multiple files.

17:18 <modwizcode> I should really learn to use vim instead of ignoring it

17:19 <d1b2> <Attie> % is "whole file", s/.../.../ is the regex, g is global (i.e: multiple matches per line), c is confirm (i.e: ask before doing replace)