New submission from Adam Tomjack <adam.tomj...@zuerchertech.com>:
profile.Profile.calibrate can only produces a bias for the default timer. If
you've specified a different timer, it will not be used when calibrating.
Additionally, setting profile.Profile.bias will affect the computed bias. It
will produce a bias that must be added to profile.Profile.bias and cannot be
used independently, which is surprising.
The fix is to change
p = Profile()
to
p = Profile(timer=self.timer, bias=0)
in _calibrate_inner().
The attached patch makes that change and additionally removes some code that
temporarily resets self.bias in calibrate(), as it had no effect. Perhaps
Profile.bias was meant instead. At any rate, _calibrate_inner() no longer
needs to exist, but is left for backwards compatibility.
This will demonstrate the problem with calibrating after setting
profile.Profile.bias:
import profile
profile.Profile.bias = profile.Profile().calibrate(100000);
print '%+.9f' % profile.Profile.bias
profile.Profile.bias = profile.Profile().calibrate(100000);
print '%+.9f' % profile.Profile.bias
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components: Library (Lib)
files: profile-calibrate.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 157145
nosy: adamtj
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: profile.Profile.calibrate can produce incorrect numbers in some
circumstances
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25073/profile-calibrate.patch
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