#5452 HIGH Update.: Beat XP in activity startup time.

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#5452: Beat XP in activity startup time.
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 Reporter:  cscott  |       Owner:  cjb     
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  Update.1
Component:  distro  |     Version:          
 Keywords:          |    Verified:  0       
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 Measured activity startup time in 650, for Pippy, is 10 seconds.  We need
 to greatly improve this!

 First step is to implement a forking python process.

 Apparently 'inspect' (used by dbus and telepathy for better traceback) is
 another bottleneck; use of this package should be changed to lazily load
 it when an exception is thrown.

 A wrapper for 'import foo' which creates a stub object 'foo' which will
 lazily load the module when foo is first dereferenced should also help.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5452>
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