Making dbatools Load Faster

Chrissy LeMaire has found a technique to reduce the load time for dbatools:

I don’t know the in-depth internals of Import-Module, but I know that importing a DLL filled with C# cmdlets is extremely fast. For instance, Microsoft’s SqlServer module imports 100 commands in less than a second. Sometimes it’s closer to half a second!
I wondered if we could somehow compile our commands into a C# binary but that seemed far-fetched. One thing we could do, though, is use compression! It works for SQL Server backups, could it work for PowerShell?

Spoilers:  the answer is “yes.”  Read on to see how much faster the initial import gets.