> Even at that level it's a lot of added code which means slower executable.

Does it? Legitimate question. I would've assume that this could be almost entirely negligible depending on how the code is loaded into the runtime. If the code being loaded is only triggered when an import statement is seen, wouldn't that lead to essentially no speed overhead?

Even if it was statically linked in, I don't see why having the code would slow down the executable by any amount that we'd want to consider. Maybe literally more of an executable to load into memory, but I don't see that being a tangible slow down.

Would love to know if I'm missing a big piece here though.