We ought to clean up the profiling modules. There was a long discussion about this here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-November/058212.html Much of the discussion revolved around whether to add lsprof in the stdlib. That's been resolved. It was added. Now what do we do? I suggest merging profile and cProfile (which uses _lsprof) similar to how stringio and pickle are being merged. This leaves hotshot as odd man out. We should remove it. If we don't remove it, we should try to merge these modules so they have the same API and capabilities as much as possible, even if they work in different ways. The hotshot doc states: Note The hotshot module focuses on minimizing the overhead while profiling, at the expense of long data post-processing times. For common usages it is recommended to use cProfile instead. hotshot is not maintained and might be removed from the standard library in the future. Caveat The hotshot profiler does not yet work well with threads. It is useful to use an unthreaded script to run the profiler over the code you're interested in measuring if at all possible. n _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
