[New-bugs-announce] [issue9622] Allow to set profile/trace function globally

[Kristján Valur Jónsson]

New submission from Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com>:

issue 9609 updates _lsprof.c to be multi-stack aware.  This allows cProfile.Profile() objects to be shared by many threads and provide meaningfull results.

This update makes it more convenient to profile running, multi-threaded, applications.  By adding a set of global (cross thread) profiling hooks that override the per-thread hooks, it is possible to enable and disable profiling/tracing for the entire program.

A multithreaded python could then do something like this:
def ProfileMe(t):
  p = cProfile.Profile()
  p.enable(global=True)
  time.sleep(t)
  p.disable()
  p.print_stats()

A patch is provided, also, an updated _lsprof adding the new 'global' flag to the "enable" function.

(This paradigm is used successfully in EVE, albeit with "global" there meaning all tasklets, to do snapshot profiling of a running server.  The results are displayed on a web page served by the server backend.)

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components: Interpreter Core
files: globaltrace.patch
keywords: patch, patch
messages: 114054
nosy: krisvale
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Allow to set profile/trace function globally
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18545/globaltrace.patch

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