3.5x slower "anaconda -V" between v1.11 and 1.13

[dholth]

The anaconda client is noticeably slower in 1.13.0 compared to 1.11.0

(conda-build) dholth@MacBookPro conda-pupa % time /Users/dholth/miniconda3/envs/conda/bin/anaconda -V
anaconda Command line client (version 1.11.0)
/Users/dholth/miniconda3/envs/conda/bin/anaconda -V  0.17s user 0.07s system 94% cpu 0.256 total

(conda) dholth@MacBookPro conda-pupa % time anaconda -V
anaconda Command line client (version 1.13.0)
anaconda -V  0.58s user 0.27s system 41% cpu 2.061 total

It looks like "import binstar_client" is slower in the new version.

python -c import time; begin = time.time(); import binstar_client; end = time.time() ; print(end-begin)

Shows .67 on the new version and .19 on the old version.

[mattkram]

I'm having trouble reproducing this. I am using hyperfine to run both a test script, which imports and prints the version, and the anaconda -V command. This is comparing v1.11.0 and v1.13.0 from the main channel. It is slightly hard to test, because 1.11.0 has a bug where it's raising an exception if not installed in the base environment (fixed by #667)

Here is the first example, which runs the following script:

import binstar_client

print(binstar_client.__version__)

And here is the same thing, but running anaconda -V:

To me, the differences seem pretty negligible. Am I overlooking something here?