Slow startup when Hy is installed from a wheel

[Kodiologist]

Testing the new release of 0.16.0, I see that startup is much slower when installing from the wheel than from the source distribution or directly from the repository. Likewise for older Hy releases. Even when I make sure the __pycache__s are included in the wheel and I can see they're installed. Either there's something wonky with my system, or wheel installation doesn't play nicely with premade byte-compiled files.

[brandonwillard]

Maybe a bytecode version thing? If you turn on debug, does it say it's recompiling?

[Kodiologist]

Sorry, which debug mode do you mean? Should HY_DEBUG print such messages?

[brandonwillard]

I was thinking of -d.

[Kodiologist]

I don't seem to get any messages about compilation from python3 -d -m hy.core.language.

[Kodiologist]

Speed issues have gotten worse since the establishment of Hyrule, even when I've ensured that bytecode is pregenerated and installed. I think I may try to address them soon.