[Python-Dev] Hotshot

[Nick Bastin]

On Jan 23, 2004, at 5:29 PM, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

> HotShot has had some attention, and has been found useful, but I don't
> think of it as really finished.  Issues have been reported relating to
> making measurements when threads are involved, but I've not had any
> time available for it.
>
> There is some documentation in the Library Reference:
>
>     http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-hotshot.html
>
> What's in the standard library contains the low-level profiler and a
> hotshot.stats module that allows the same kind of analysis and
> reporting as the pstats module supports for the older profile module.

There was some note in a presentation you gave quite a while ago that 
HotShot could profile C extension functions, but I believe that would 
have required a change to the main python interpreter loop.  Does it 
actually allow the profiling of extension functions, and was it via 
some previously existing mechanism in python, or did the interpreter 
change?  (at least the last time I was in eval_frame, CALL_FUNCTION 
wasn't profiled if PyCFunction_Check returned true - I actually 
modified this at one point except in cases where fast_cfunction was 
used, but at least in 2.2.2 the standard distribution didn't seem to 
have the ability to profile extension functions).

--
Nick