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DOC Mention slow import times for pkg_resources #519

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Expand Up @@ -220,7 +220,8 @@ Alternatively, you can use ``pkg_resources`` which is included in
# package is not installed
pass

This does place a runtime dependency on ``setuptools``.
However, this does place a runtime dependency on ``setuptools`` and can add up to
a few 100ms overhead for the package import time.

.. _PEP-0566: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0566/
.. _importlib_metadata: https://pypi.org/project/importlib-metadata/
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