[Tutor] suggestion for an editor

[Steven D'Aprano]

Bala subramanian wrote:
> Friends,
> At present i write programs using vi editor. I am interested to change to
> something else. My specific need is that i want to select a portion/small
> segment of my program (for eg. a nested loop) and then monitor processing
> time it takes for that portion while i run the program. By this i hope to
> find the segment that takes time and modify to achieve better speed. Can
> someone please share their experience.

I don't think that what you want exists. As far as I know, even full-featured 
IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) don't include profiling of selected 
sections of code.

The only IDEs I am familiar with were from the 1990s, Lightspeed Pascal (later 
Think Pascal), which included integrated editor, compiler, linker and 
debugger. As far as I know while integrated debuggers are still standard, and 
possibly even whole-program profilers, the ability to select a small portion 
of code and profile just that and nothing else is pure fantasy.

But I could be wrong.

If you learn of such an IDE, please come back and share that knowledge with us.




-- 
Steven