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I was benchmarking the ipyparallel code and discovered that the scripts where spending a lot of time acquiring msg_ids.
The msg_id property of the Session class takes a while to run just to get a unique ID.
To optimise this I changed the msg_id property function to use a message counter and to just return the session_id + message count. This also return a unique ID and runs much faster.
Using timeit to compare the existing code with my implementation I got these runtimes for 1000 000 calls to session.msg_id: