First call to ic() can take significant amounts of time in Pygame games, especially in debug mode

[StephenPeringer]

I've just started using ic(), and I've noticed that in the right context, it takes a too long to run.

This is the code I used to measure execution times:

from time import time
from icecream import ic

start = time()
ic.format("")
end = time()
print(f"time: {end - start}")

I ran this code in two different Pygame games, each in both Run and Debug modes, all in PyCharm. One game is a "Hello, World!" game, and the other is a more fully developed arcade game. I ran them each several times. These are all typical results, in descending order of problematic:

Fuller game, Debug mode

time: 1.7278175354003906

Fuller game, Run mode

time: 0.3357973098754883

Hello, World!, Debug mode

time: 0.27829909324645996

Hello, World!, Run mode

time: 0.12203741073608398

This kind of lag only happens the first time ic() is called; further calls are in the range of 0.001s to 0.005s. I understand from reading other bug reports that you're not focused on speed, but 1.7 seconds is too long to wait each time a developer tweaks something and starts the game up to test it.