[Python-Dev] Encoding of PyFrameObject members

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

Hi Francis

Feel free to steal most of vmprof code, it should generally work
without requiring to patch cpython (python 3 patches appreciated :-).
As far as timer goes - it seems not to be going anywhere, I would
rather use a background thread or something

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Francis Giraldeau
<francis.giraldeau at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-02-08 4:01 GMT-05:00 Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>:
>>
>> I'm working on vmprof (github.com/vmprof/vmprof-python) which works
>> for both cpython and pypy (pypy has special support, cpython is
>> patched on-the fly)
>
>
> This looks interesting. I'm working on a profiler that is similar, but not
> based on timer. Instead, the signal is generated when an hardware
> performance counter overflows. It required a special linux kernel module,
> and the tracepoint is recorded using LTTng-UST.
>
> https://github.com/giraldeau/perfuser
> https://github.com/giraldeau/perfuser-modules
> https://github.com/giraldeau/python-profile-ust
>
> This is of course very experimental, requires a special setup, an I don't
> even know if it's going to produce good results. I'll report the results in
> the coming weeks.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Francis Giraldeau