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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…
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…
Valgrind is essentially a VM, this uses cProfile - I wouldn't call that doing the 'same thing' at all.
I would like to complain about name similarity to vmprof (my project)
Is there a similar tool of the code heatmap but for JS?
Lots of info on that here: http://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html
When installing.
http://www.pyvmmonitor.com also provides a nice visual profiler.