In the course of testing #25297 by running all wallet-related functional tests (see #25297 (comment)), I noticed that the run-time of those tests vary a lot between runs, in fact too much for a useful comparison. This PR fixes this by making the tests both more deterministic and also faster, using the good ol' immediate tx relay trick (parameter -whitelist=noban@127.0.0.1).
master branch:
wallet_abandonconflict.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 7 s
wallet_abandonconflict.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 23 s
wallet_balance.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 17 s
wallet_balance.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 21 s
wallet_basic.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 32 s
wallet_basic.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 56 s
wallet_bumpfee.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 44 s
wallet_bumpfee.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 45 s
wallet_groups.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 89 s
wallet_groups.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 94 s
wallet_hd.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 7 s
wallet_hd.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 13 s
wallet_importdescriptors.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 26 s
wallet_listreceivedby.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 28 s
wallet_listreceivedby.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 18 s
ALL | ✓ Passed | 520 s (accumulated)
Runtime: 526 s
PR branch:
wallet_abandonconflict.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 7 s
wallet_abandonconflict.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 11 s
wallet_balance.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 8 s
wallet_balance.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 8 s
wallet_basic.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 29 s
wallet_basic.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 36 s
wallet_bumpfee.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 39 s
wallet_bumpfee.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 32 s
wallet_groups.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 39 s
wallet_groups.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 41 s
wallet_hd.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 8 s
wallet_hd.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 11 s
wallet_importdescriptors.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 17 s
wallet_listreceivedby.py --descriptors | ✓ Passed | 7 s
wallet_listreceivedby.py --legacy-wallet | ✓ Passed | 9 s
ALL | ✓ Passed | 302 s (accumulated)
Runtime: 309 s
Note that an alternative approach could be to whitelist peers by default for nodes in the functional test framework and only enable the trickle relay for the few tests where it's really needed.