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call the python profiler for python benchmarking and optimization

April 30th, 2007 by Lawrence David

as long as you’re running a version of python newer than 2.3, you can easily call the python profiler to find bottlenecks in your code:

$ python -m cProfile mycode.py

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One Response to “call the python profiler for python benchmarking and optimization”

1. on 18 Aug 2008 at 5:47 pm   measure python’s memory usage » from the desk of stinkpot

   [...] profiling running time in python is straightforward.  what’s tricky is measuring how much memory your program is consuming.  i’ve modified some code i found online to do the trick nicely; just import this PyVM module and insert the following into your program: import PyVM [...]