Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

As noted inhttps://discuss.python.org/t/deferred-computation-evalution-for-toplevels-imports-and-dataclasses/34173,typing isn't the slowest stdlib module in terms of import time, but neither is it one of the quickest. We should speed it up, if possible.

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

https://discuss.python.org/t/deferred-computation-evalution-for-toplevels-imports-and-dataclasses/34173

Linked PRs

• gh-109653:typing.py: improve import time by creating soft-deprecated members on demand #109651
• gh-109653: Improveenum import time by avoiding import offunctools #109789
• gh-109653: Remove unused imports in theLib/ directory #109803
• gh-109653: Avoid a top-level import oftypes infunctools #109804
• gh-109653: Just importrecursive_repr indataclasses #109822
• gh-109653: Improve the import time ofemail.utils #109824
• GH-109653: Defer import ofimportlib.metadata._adapters #109829
• gh-109653: Fix py312 regression in the import time ofrandom #110221
• [3.12] gh-109653: Fix py312 regression in the import time ofrandom (GH-110221) #110247
• gh-109653: Defer importingwarnings in several modules #110286
• gh-109653: Improve import time oflogging by lazy loadingtraceback #112995
• gh-109653: Speedup import of threading module #114509
• gh-109653: Improve import time of importlib.metadata / email.utils #114664
• gh-109653: Reduce import overhead of uuid module on Linux #115160
• gh-109653: What's new: Note improved import times for several stdlib modules in Python 3.13 #118697