chore: Reduce runserver import time by 75% from 30s to 8s #41847
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This might add time to hogql queries? Just reading code here I have no idea what the actual time difference is and if it's meaningful but the hogql query execution path is definitely a place where we want to shave every bit of slowness off of
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Problem
we import a bunch of heavy packages on startup. do some clever lazy loading to avoid this!
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After:
The vast majority now is schema.py, wait for something clever there too!
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