Issue 870 in robotframework: Performance improvement when using tags

[robotframework]

Status: New
Owner: ----
Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Medium
New issue 870 by a.m.vanw...@gmail.com: Performance improvement when using  
tags
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=870

We are using Robot Framework 2.5.6 (Python 2.6.2 on sunos5)

We use a script to include and exclude test cases (total 165) out of  
directory containing all the test files (33 files). The more tags/cases we  
are adding the longer it takes for the script really begins.

Here is std output:
-->
bash-3.00$ ./test-airac0.sh
Wed Jun 15 12:51:01 UTC 2011
==============================================================================
airac0
==============================================================================
airac0.TCS-OLDI-ABI-R
==============================================================================
TC-OLDI-ABI-R-11 :: Validating fields ICAO   | PASS |
<--

And here logged start time in logfile
Start / End / Elapsed: 20110615 12:56:40.144 / 20110615 12:57:58.044 /  
00:01:17.900

So it took 5 minutes before script started.

Can this be improved, 165 test cases is not that big....