⚡ [performance improvement unblock time.sleep]

[skurtyyskirts]

💡 What:
Replaced the uninterruptible time.sleep(sleep_s) in the RemixAPIClient.make_request retry logic with an interruptible self._shutdown_event.wait(sleep_s). Added an event trigger in RemixAPIClient.close().

🎯 Why:
Previously, if the application failed to communicate with the REST API, it would fall into an exponential backoff loop. Because this loop used time.sleep(), the underlying synchronous thread was completely blocked. This caused hangs on shutdown because the application had to wait for the entire sleep to complete before teardown could finish.

By using threading.Event().wait(), the delay behavior is functionally identical, but calling close() immediately sets the event, skipping any remaining sleep time and unblocking the thread instantly.

📊 Measured Improvement:
We built a benchmark simulating a 5-retry scenario with a ConnectionError (which normally generates 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s delays, totaling 15 seconds).

• Baseline (time.sleep): Shutting down the client during the backoff took 15.00 seconds to yield.
• Improved (Event.wait): Shutting down the client during the backoff yielded the thread in 0.50 seconds (effectively instantly after the mock shutdown signal).

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Pull request overview

This PR updates RemixAPIClient.make_request retry backoff to be interruptible during shutdown by replacing time.sleep() with a threading.Event().wait() that can be signaled from RemixAPIClient.close(), reducing shutdown hangs when the client is stuck in exponential backoff.

Changes:

• Added _shutdown_event to RemixAPIClient and used it to make retry backoff cancellable via Event.wait(timeout).
• Updated RemixAPIClient.close() to set the shutdown event.
• Adjusted retry-logic unit tests to patch threading.Event.wait instead of time.sleep.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 5 comments.

File	Description
remix_api.py	Introduces a shutdown event and uses it to make retry backoff interruptible.
tests/test_remix_api.py	Updates retry tests to mock the new backoff mechanism (Event.wait).