import time is extremely long

[neutrinoceros]

using tuna (pip install tuna), one can profile amical import time

python -X importtime -c "import amical" 2> tuna.log && tuna tuna.log

So it takes about 2s on my machine (that's 20x longer than numpy, for reference) most of which being caused by candid and other heavy dependencies. I think there's a lot of room for improvement.