id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	difficulty
1172	The overhead of loading import files is noticable	sjamaan		"As reported by CaptainRant via IRC, the overhead in loading a .import.scm is quite a lot.  This is an issue for CaptainRant in a project that involves loading plugins into a running binary.

Attached is a simple test case that compares loading a full module versus a simple ""unit"" style dynamic object.

The biggest overhead is in the call to ""eval"" in the generated import file.  This can be ripped out with no consequence to the loading of the plugin; this may be due to the simplicity of the plugin or really due to the fact that there's no code running at toplevel which requires the evaled import. In any case, this should be improved."	defect	closed	major	5.0	core libraries	4.9.x	fixed	modules, loading		hard