inspect_request on a very large string is extremely slow

In VS Code, we send `inspect_request` to get the full value of a variable for the variables view. For a really large string (e.g., 4GB) this request can take a long time, around 30s in my testing.

I don't fully follow the code, but I did some basic testing, and most of that time is spent on this call to `signature`, which throws https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/28f76f8a2f37700f8d74e91c4a54929dc367000f/IPython/core/oinspect.py#L376. Something went wrong, since the string is not callable, so it seems we shouldn't have ended up in that function anyway. I don't know whether the problem is in ipykernel or ipython.

Let me know whether you need more details.

Start at the inspect_request handling mentioned in the issue and inspect the linked signature call in IPython/core/oinspect.py around line 376. Reproduce the delay with a very large string, then trace why signature is reached for a non-callable value. Done means inspect_request no longer spends about 30 seconds processing that value.

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