I am setting up a system that migrates users from an external source and have determined the most time expensive part is when the UsersService _setPasswordOnUserRecord method hashes the password
$hash = craft()->security->hashPassword($user->newPassword);
This is taking about 2 secs where the rest of the operation for saving a user is about .2 sec. There are close to 10k users to it's really adding up! Is there any way to use a faster type of hash or bypass the hashing, or am I out of luck?
example:
$user = new UserModel;
$user->firstName = "First";
$user->lastName = 'last';
$user->newPassword = '123456';
$user->email = 'email@email.com';
$user->username = 'username';
$wasSaved = craft()->users->saveUser($user);