title: Is there a way to load the wiki-fasttext model faster with load_word2vec_format
body: <p>Loading the wiki-fasttext model with the gensim library takes <strong>six</strong> minutes. </p>
  
  <p>I'm aware of ways to cache the model but I'm looking for ways to speedup the initial model loading. The specific api is below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>en_model = KeyedVectors.load_word2vec_format(os.path.join(root_dir, model_file))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Granted, wiki-fasttext a very large model, however I have load the same model in many languages.  </p>