From 521cc41db0b1e294a7e61eea6b0725139044c173 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Parent <john.parent@kitware.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 13:26:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove Spack external find from startup

Spack was running an external detection of Python during each invocation
of the setup script for Windows CMD/PWSH, which has dramatic performance
implications each time the script is invoked, and is completely
unneccesary. Remove this operation.
---
 bin/spack_cmd.bat | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/spack_cmd.bat b/bin/spack_cmd.bat
index 6edc6da2c2..392e42d29b 100644
--- a/bin/spack_cmd.bat
+++ b/bin/spack_cmd.bat
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ if defined py_path (
 
 if defined py_exe (
     "%py_exe%" "%SPACK_ROOT%\bin\haspywin.py"
-    "%py_exe%" "%SPACK_ROOT%\bin\spack" external find python >NUL
 )
 
 set "EDITOR=notepad"