bpo-43392: Optimize repeated calls to `__import__()` (GH-24735)
Implements a two steps check in `importlib._bootstrap._find_and_load()` to avoid locking when the module has been already imported and it's ready.
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Using `importlib.__import__()`, after this, does show a big difference:
Before:
```
$ ./python -c 'import timeit; print(timeit.timeit("__import__(\"timeit\")", setup="from importlib import __import__"))'
15.92248619502061
```
After:
```
$ ./python -c 'import timeit; print(timeit.timeit("__import__(\"timeit\")", setup="from importlib import __import__"))'
1.206068897008663
```
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Germán Méndez Bravo committed
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Parent: 953d272
Committed by GitHub <noreply@github.com>
on 8/12/2021, 6:23:29 PM