Daniel Drake
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Upon import of uuid, that module uses ctypes.util to find libuuid/libc, which involves forking a shell process which then forks and runs ldconfig. ldconfig performs a whole bunch of disk accesses. This is a slowdown. uuid.getnode() is also documented to be slow. Lets avoid using it in the activity launch path; we don't need such a high degree of randomness. This makes activities launch 1-2 seconds faster on XO-1.
Sugar is the core of the OLPC Human Interface. The toolkit provides a set of widgets to build HIG compliant applications and interfaces to interact with system services like presence and the datastore.