Pieter Eendebak

> @rossbar maybe you can have a look? @eendebakpt this change looks like it should get a basic tests. Basic test was added. @rossbar Could you have a look at...

A profiling result for the import part of multiarray umath:  The import of the datetime module is something that will probably happen anyway. The `initumath` is expensive with a...

The easy items have been addressed, I will close the issue.

@seberg Do you want me to write release notes for this PR? I guess it should be with the `compatibility` label.

@seberg @rossbar Release notes have been added. Let now if I can do anything else for the PR.

@charris or @rossbar, could one of you review this PR?

I will look into it

This PRwas merged without merging with main first it seems. The latest time CI was executed was 5 months ago, so that might explains why we see some errors now....

Yes, conversion the `str` works fine. But this is something users will bump into, as pathlib is becoming more the standard, so it would be nice if openql could support...

Closing as the import time was improved in two pr's