Describe the bug

I updated Vite from 5.0.2 to 5.0.3 today and noticed my tests were timing out. I have custom infra using Vitest + Playwright to open a browser using Vite. Vite loads a few hundred JS files (~80k lines of code in this case) and renders some stuff with React. With Vite 5.0.3 it consistently takes 3-10x longer to load those webpages.

Here is a video: https://github.com/vitejs/vite/assets/13352/96ea4de5-2ed0-4f1f-8776-16fc30b4cc67

The first load is via Vite 5.0.2 and takes about 1.5-2 seconds. Then I upgrade to Vite 5.0.3, restart Vite and load the page again twice. Both times it takes 5-10 seconds. I don't know how to debug this further, and will appreciate any help to troubleshoot the issue and come up with a consistent repro.

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System Info

Latest mac OS with latest version of every possible package.

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pnpm

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