mysql dump import incredibly slow on my developer's machine
This answer speeded up everything a lot:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/2167641/292408

I simply 

SET autocommit=0;
SET unique_checks=0;
SET foreign_key_checks=0;


at the beginning, and

COMMIT;
SET unique_checks=1;
SET foreign_key_checks=1;


at the end.

Now it took 3 minutes.

(Courtesy of @andreasemer via twitter)