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While there are some implementation differences (py-spy is written in rust, profiling.sampling is a mix of python and C etc), the end result seems pretty similar to me. One thing t…

Sorry about leaving your program suspended - I believe that was because of a bug that should be fixed now https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/issues/390 =(

> you can either race with the program and hope that you read its memory to get the function stack before it changes what function it's running (and you're likely to win the race, …

Interesting article. While I definitely think you should be profiling your code to figure out the hot spots, cProfile has some limitations for profiling: cProfile doesn't give you …

Author here. It's worth noting that since I wrote this post, py-spy has gained the ability to profile multiprocess python applications - and can also now show local variables in th…

I wrote something that will get you the python interpreter stack from any running cpython process : https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/ , and rbspy can do the same for ruby https://…

the name pyspy was taken on pypi already : https://github.com/tdfischer/pyspy =)

Thanks! Both of your suggestions totally make sense. I've created an issue to track the poll() issue here https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/issues/13 - I think that should be an ea…

Not yet - but I'm hoping to have a version that supports this next week. Will update this issue when it's done: https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/issues/3

Check out rbspy https://github.com/rbspy/rbspy (rbspy was the inspiration for this project =)

I analyzed the top 1 million robots.txt files looking for sites that allow google and block everyone else here: https://www.benfrederickson.com/robots-txt-analysis/ - it's a relati…

There is a pretty good breakdown of a bunch of different options for visualizing sets here: http://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/SetViz Venn/Euler diagrams don't work all that well past 3…

Neat demonstration! A while back I wrote a small package in Javascript for computing area proportional Venn and Euler diagrams: https://github.com/benfred/venn.js . The 2 circle ca…

Alias tables are pretty cool, I wrote an interactive visualization of how they get built as part of this post a while ago: http://engineering.flipboard.com/2017/02/storyclustering …