[issue14657] Avoid two importlib copies

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> 
>> Code to detect whether you're running off a checkout vs. a normal
>> installation by looking at even more directories ? I don't
>> see any in getpath.c (and that's good).
> 
> Look for "pybuilddir.txt".

Oh dear. Another one of those hacks... why wasn't this done using
constants passed in by the configure script and simple string
comparison ?

BTW: The startup time of python3.3 is 113ms on my machine, that's
more than twice as long as python2.7. Given the history, it
looks like no one cares about these things anymore... :-(

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