High ~1s latency for every single `playwright-cli` commands. How to decrease?

[KkEeVvIiNnn]

Description

Simple commands in playwright-cli consistently take ~1s to complete, even when the actual operation is trivial.

For example, a basic click command:

$ playwright-cli open "example.com"

$ time playwright-cli click e3

Output:

playwright-cli click e3  0.05s user 0.03s system 6% cpu 1.141 total

And even a minimal run-code:

$ time playwright-cli run-code "async page => { return 1; }" --raw

Output:

1
playwright-cli run-code ...  0.05s user 0.03s system 6% cpu 1.121 total

In both cases, total execution time is consistently over 1 second.

Comparison

Interestingly, snapshot / screenshot is significantly faster:

$ time playwright-cli snapshot

Output:

playwright-cli snapshot  0.05s user 0.02s system 72% cpu 0.095 total

Question

Is there a way to reduce the cost?

[pavelfeldman]

Input actions deliberately waits for either network to settle or 500ms for timeouts and other asynchrony to trigger. That is still within the rounding error of your LLM completion, are you running those from a script?