Improving Posting's startup time by over 40%

I&rsquo;ve been working on improving the startup time of Posting recently.&#xA; Posting is a TUI application built with Textual , and written in Python, for managing and sending HTTP requests. &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; &#xA; This post is an overview of some of the techniques (and hacks) I used and the gains made, including: &#xA; &#xA; Using python -X importtime to measure import times. &#xA;…