On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM Luca Vizzarro <Luca.Vizzarro@arm.com> wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> Perfectly understand the situation, I am just afraid that adding a whole
> 5 seconds every time an InteractiveShell is spawned may slow down
> everything by a lot. These are spawned a lot of times, so it will stack
> up. Is there no other way to test for readiness?
>

Yeah. I was guessing at the math before and thought it was like +25%
execution time, but now I see it's more like +90%. Definitely not ideal.

I wasn't able to come up with any other readiness checks but maybe there
is. Anyhow let's discuss all this at the Thursday meeting as it's not
urgent.


>
> Also I think we are providing the ability to run shells outside the
> context manager as well for some scenarios where it's needed, so this
> approach won't cover that case unfortunately.
>

Good point I'll take another look.


>
> Best,
> Luca
>