Standard profile results

 >>> import hotshot, pstats
 >>> p = hotshot.Profile().runcall(main)
 >>> pstats.Stats(p).sort_stats('time').print_stats()
        58666 function calls (56532 primitive calls) in 0.980 CPU seconds
  Ordered by: internal time
  ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
       1    0.240    0.240    0.240    0.240 :0(create)
     472    0.220    0.000    0.220    0.000 :0(call)
    1696    0.050    0.000    0.050    0.000 sre_parse.py:182(__next)
    6022    0.030    0.000    0.030    0.000 :0(append)
  181/27    0.030    0.000    0.060    0.002 sre_compile.py:27(_compile)
     216    0.020    0.000    0.030    0.000 interface.py:850(fromFunction)
      26    0.020    0.001    0.020    0.001 advice.py:69(addClassAdvisor)
      23    0.020    0.001    0.220    0.010 netconnect:125(__init__)
1381/201    0.020    0.000    0.040    0.000 ro.py:58(_flatten)
       1    0.020    0.020    0.980    0.980 netconnect:23(?)
       1    0.020    0.020    0.020    0.020 Tkinter.py:31(?)
       1    0.010    0.010    0.010    0.010 urllib.py:1086(quote)
    2590    0.010    0.000    0.010    0.000 :0(get)
       1    0.010    0.010    0.010    0.010 compat.py:115(Connection)
       1    0.010    0.010    0.010    0.010 tksupport.py:24(?)

Displaying as html

Other web graphs: /home/drewp/projects/ffg-dash/test/sparqlBench.py

% ./pstats2web /tmp/pro -o out.html

Displaying with kcachegrind

Ubuntu packages: kcachegrind-convertors, kcachegrind

% hotshot2calltree /tmp/pro > calltree

% kcachegrind calltree

see callee map of the 'parseTerm' function

Displaying with exhibit

Check out exhibit at http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/

% ./pstats2web /tmp/pro -j out.js -m 60

View profileResults.html in a browser, which reads out.js from the same directory.

Still looking for

• statistical profiler to leave running all the time
• at least a faster reporter (lsprof?)
• something to charge twisted deferred callbacks to their creator function instead of to the eventloop
• more useful filter groups in exhibit. callees? file is involved in top 10?