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Just as in #4385 and #3156 we should not be importing sympy at the
module level. Sympy is a very heavy dependency and is slow to import
(and slow to run too). Adding a sympy import to the module level makes
imports significantly slower. This commit reverts the top level import
of sympy, which was only added for type hints, to fix the import
performance regression.

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Just as in Qiskit#4385 and Qiskit#3156 we should not be importing sympy at the
module level. Sympy is a very heavy dependency and is slow to import
(and slow to run too). Adding a sympy import to the module level makes
imports significantly slower. This commit reverts the top level import
of sympy, which was only added for type hints, to fix the import
performance regression.
@mtreinish mtreinish added this to the 0.16 milestone Sep 29, 2020
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@1ucian0 1ucian0 merged commit 18ad8fc into Qiskit:master Sep 30, 2020
@mtreinish mtreinish deleted the fix-sympy-import-again branch October 3, 2020 12:00
mtreinish added a commit to mtreinish/qiskit-core that referenced this pull request Nov 19, 2020
Just as has been demonstrated many times in the past we should not be
importing sympy at the module level. In Qiskit#5259 another import was added
and was immediately flagged as an import speed regression [1]. Sympy is
a very heavy dependency and is slow to import (and slow to run too).
Adding a sympy import to the module level makes and is honestly a
dependency we should be reluctant to add anywhere because it becomes
the primary bottleneck whenever it is used. This commit removes the top
level sympy import and moves to be a runtime import in the single method
that uses sympy. Just as it was done in Qiskit#5149, Qiskit#4385, and Qiskit#3156 before.

[1] https://qiskit.github.io/qiskit/#import.QiskitImport.time_qiskit_import?commits=b5d5a3bb
mergify bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 20, 2020
Just as has been demonstrated many times in the past we should not be
importing sympy at the module level. In #5259 another import was added
and was immediately flagged as an import speed regression [1]. Sympy is
a very heavy dependency and is slow to import (and slow to run too).
Adding a sympy import to the module level makes and is honestly a
dependency we should be reluctant to add anywhere because it becomes
the primary bottleneck whenever it is used. This commit removes the top
level sympy import and moves to be a runtime import in the single method
that uses sympy. Just as it was done in #5149, #4385, and #3156 before.

[1] https://qiskit.github.io/qiskit/#import.QiskitImport.time_qiskit_import?commits=b5d5a3bb

Co-authored-by: Julien Gacon <gaconju@gmail.com>
mtreinish added a commit to mtreinish/qiskit-core that referenced this pull request Jan 4, 2021
Just as has been demonstrated many times in the past we should not be
importing sympy at the module level. In Qiskit#5358 another import was added
and was immediately flagged as an import speed regression [1]. Sympy is
a very heavy dependency and is slow to import (and slow to run too).
Adding a sympy import to the module level makes and is honestly a
dependency we should be reluctant to add anywhere because it becomes
the primary bottleneck whenever it is used. This commit removes the top
level sympy import and moves to be a runtime import in the single method
that uses sympy. Just as it was done in Qiskit#5416, Qiskit#5149, Qiskit#4385, and Qiskit#3156
before.

Fixes Qiskit#5575

[1] https://qiskit.github.io/qiskit/#import.QiskitImport.time_qiskit_import?commits=300e9507
kdk pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 4, 2021
Just as has been demonstrated many times in the past we should not be
importing sympy at the module level. In #5358 another import was added
and was immediately flagged as an import speed regression [1]. Sympy is
a very heavy dependency and is slow to import (and slow to run too).
Adding a sympy import to the module level makes and is honestly a
dependency we should be reluctant to add anywhere because it becomes
the primary bottleneck whenever it is used. This commit removes the top
level sympy import and moves to be a runtime import in the single method
that uses sympy. Just as it was done in #5416, #5149, #4385, and #3156
before.

Fixes #5575

[1] https://qiskit.github.io/qiskit/#import.QiskitImport.time_qiskit_import?commits=300e9507
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