Improve performance of stderr and stdout stream buffer

ipykernel/iostream.py

@@ -376,7 +376,8 @@ def __init__(
         self._flush_pending = False
         self._subprocess_flush_pending = False
         self._io_loop = pub_thread.io_loop
-        self._new_buffer()
+        self._buffer_lock = threading.RLock()
+        self._buffer = StringIO()
         self.echo = None
         self._isatty = bool(isatty)
 
@@ -528,7 +529,8 @@ def write(self, string: str) -> int:
 
             is_child = (not self._is_master_process())
             # only touch the buffer in the IO thread to avoid races
-            self.pub_thread.schedule(lambda: self._buffer.write(string))
+            with self._buffer_lock:
+                self._buffer.write(string)
             if is_child:
                 # mp.Pool cannot be trusted to flush promptly (or ever),
                 # and this helps.
@@ -553,17 +555,15 @@ def writable(self):
         return True
 
     def _flush_buffer(self):
-        """clear the current buffer and return the current buffer data.
-
-        This should only be called in the IO thread.
-        """
-        data = ''
-        if self._buffer is not None:
-            buf = self._buffer
-            self._new_buffer()
-            data = buf.getvalue()
-            buf.close()
+        """clear the current buffer and return the current buffer data."""
+        buf = self._rotate_buffer()
+        data = buf.getvalue()
+        buf.close()
         return data
 
-    def _new_buffer(self):
-        self._buffer = StringIO()
+    def _rotate_buffer(self):
+        """Returns the current buffer and replaces it with an empty buffer."""
+        with self._buffer_lock:
+            old_buffer = self._buffer
+            self._buffer = StringIO()
+        return old_buffer