Reduce Textual test suite runtime

[darrenburns]

I think there are a few easy wins in here. This is from a run that took 33s total:

[willmcgugan]

I assume that's on CI? That top test took .46s locally.

Do you think we can get the xdist working on CI? Does it even have more than 1 core?

[darrenburns]

Nope, it's locally. If I run it without xdist it takes 2.5 seconds. With xdist as part of the full test suite the results are pretty consistent for me (tried again and got 4.98s).

For reference: pytest --dist=loadgroup -n 16 --durations 25

[willmcgugan]

I get different results. I suspect the timings are obfuscated by the concurrency. Not all tests will get the same level of concurrency.

[darrenburns]

It's not concurrency because it's consistent for me even without xdist 😢 Must just be down to the different CPUs. Do you want to close this issue or review some of the tests that appear consistently here at some point?

[willmcgugan]

Keep it for a reference. But it doesn't seem a high priority. With the xdist, I still find the tests super zippy.

BTW I tweaked that slow test in the help panel PR. It was excessive.

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