Duplicate imports

[jkhax0r]

I'm on ESP32S3. Fairly new to python. Running a master build from about 10 days ago.

I noticed that if I do multiple duplicated imports (from a function originally), it is exceedingly slow. But I was under the impression these are auto-cached and only loaded once.

The below code was my way to easily reproduce and takes about 10 seconds to run from fresh REPL. Is this expected?

I'll just import my few "conditional" modules from outside a function, but just checking if this is expected and if there's a solution to avoid. My other concern is that I have an import utils, sys, machine, etc probably in 20 different source files and have about a 5 second boot time while its importing.

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