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* Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> [2011-06-27 17:19:09 -0400]:
> Bleh. Has there been any serious work to document the causes and how
> the code could be changed to fix the syscall bloat though? Or just
> preliminat strace and wc -l?

most of the syscalls are due to python module imports check
100 different locations before finding the good one

imho they measured it and concluded that with modern
filesystem caching this does not matter much..