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Re: Visual profiler for Python

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Post by _yosefk » Thu, May 19, 2016, 8:41 PM UTC

kolapuriya wrote: post #13

KCacheGrind relies on using valgrind, which gives you extremely detailed information on runtime information by wrapping your execution context at a very low level. For this reason, it can track individual memory allocations, function call statistics, etc. However, for Python, that can be a bit overkill; usually you're just looking to measure what parts of your code are taking up executing time and heap space. This pa…

Actually KCachegrind displays files in an open format and is great for visualizing profiling info obtained from other tools.

Re: Visual profiler for Python

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Post by rhinoceraptor » Thu, May 19, 2016, 8:57 PM UTC

vegabook wrote: post #17

Looks like an awesome piece of technology, but why, whenever I see headline xxxx followed by "(github.com)" do I get a slight feeling of despair - that feeling that this project has a high chance of being future abandonware. Is it that having a proper, dedicated, expensive-looking, website, away from github, is a signal of access to resources, willingness to do proper marketing and documentation, and therefore, by co…

If it's going to be abandonware, isn't it better to be on Github where it's easily accessible, rather than a random git server that could disappear?

Re: Visual profiler for Python

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Post by fijal » Thu, May 19, 2016, 9:29 PM UTC

I would like to complain about name similarity to vmprof (my project)

Re: Visual profiler for Python

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Post by fijal » Thu, May 19, 2016, 9:30 PM UTC

TL;DR; it's a visualizer for cProfile (with all the cProfile problems)

DISCLAIMER: I'm an author of cProfile competitor, vmprof

Re: Visual profiler for Python

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Post by notifier2050 » Thu, May 19, 2016, 9:38 PM UTC

vegabook wrote: post #17

Looks like an awesome piece of technology, but why, whenever I see headline xxxx followed by "(github.com)" do I get a slight feeling of despair - that feeling that this project has a high chance of being future abandonware. Is it that having a proper, dedicated, expensive-looking, website, away from github, is a signal of access to resources, willingness to do proper marketing and documentation, and therefore, by co…

Like with almost any open source project nobody promises you anything. But it's not framework, you don't lose much by not using it and you don't have to rewrite your code in case it would be abandoned.

Re: Visual profiler for Python

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Post by vegabook » Thu, May 19, 2016, 9:52 PM UTC

notifier2050 wrote: post #25

vegabook wrote: post #17

Looks like an awesome piece of technology, but why, whenever I see headline xxxx followed by "(github.com)" do I get a slight feeling of despair - that feeling that this project has a high chance of being future abandonware. Is it that having a proper, dedicated, expensive-looking, website, away from github, is a signal of access to resources, willingness to do proper marketing and documentation, and therefore, by co…

Like with almost any open source project nobody promises you anything. But it's not framework, you don't lose much by not using it and you don't have to rewrite your code in case it would be abandoned.

yes I realise that I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth, and I love git(hub), but I'm just pointing out that "(github.com)" might just be a net-negative marketing point for people looking for robust software.