Hi Francis Feel free to steal most of vmprof code, it should generally work without requiring to patch cpython (python 3 patches appreciated :-). As far as timer goes - it seems not to be going anywhere, I would rather use a background thread or something
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Francis Giraldeau <francis.girald...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-02-08 4:01 GMT-05:00 Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com>: >> >> I'm working on vmprof (github.com/vmprof/vmprof-python) which works >> for both cpython and pypy (pypy has special support, cpython is >> patched on-the fly) > > > This looks interesting. I'm working on a profiler that is similar, but not > based on timer. Instead, the signal is generated when an hardware > performance counter overflows. It required a special linux kernel module, > and the tracepoint is recorded using LTTng-UST. > > https://github.com/giraldeau/perfuser > https://github.com/giraldeau/perfuser-modules > https://github.com/giraldeau/python-profile-ust > > This is of course very experimental, requires a special setup, an I don't > even know if it's going to produce good results. I'll report the results in > the coming weeks. > > Cheers, > > Francis Giraldeau _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
