The find controller tests consistently show up in the list of slowest
tests reported by Jasmine. Profiling shows that most of the time is
spent waiting for the find results to arrive, even though the find
command itself is quite fast.
It turns out that the slowdown occurs between receiving the `find` event
and actually triggering the search. The find controller has a hardcoded
delay of 250 milliseconds built in, which was introduced for viewer
performance many years ago because otherwise every keystroke would
trigger a search even though the user's query was not complete yet.
For the unit tests we don't need this delay because, contrary to the
viewer use case, we don't have to account for user interaction and
instead dispatch complete `find` events on the event bus ourselves.
However, since the unit tests were introduced well over a year after
the delay was introduced, due to an oversight it was never made
configurable so we could skip it for the unit tests.
This commit fixes the issue, which locally results in the runtime of
`npx gulp unittest --noChrome` dropping from 39.991 seconds before this
patch to 29.116 seconds afterwards, which is a 27% speedup.
038ca33f8e