Improve lwe startup time

[johnd0e]

Improve lwe startup time

[thehunmonkgroup]

I just want you to know that for some use cases startup time may be critical.

Then use a library that doesn't leverage the slowest scripting language on earth ;)

I've actually found a great deal of the startup time is taken by the provider plugins. Some of the underlying libraries are probably issuing HTTP requests and such to gather info. There's not a whole lot I can do about that w/o rolling my own provider code, which is not worth it to save a little startup time.

If I disable all plugins, my startup time is about 1.5 seconds.

The design goals of LWE do not include blazing fast startup times. The two main use cases are:

1. Start it and leave it available for quick CLI interaction with LLMs
2. Run more complicated workflows in some kind of automation framework

[thehunmonkgroup]

I'm going to open this back up, because although I personally have no interest in doing the work on this feature, I would review a well-considered PR that improves startup time.