Neal> The hotshot doc states:
Neal> Note
Neal> The hotshot module focuses on minimizing the overhead while
Neal> profiling, at the expense of long data post-processing times. For
Neal> common usages it is recommended to use cProfile instead. hotshot
Neal> is not maintained and might be removed from the standard library
Neal> in the future.
Neal> Caveat
Neal> The hotshot profiler does not yet work well with threads. It is
Neal> useful to use an unthreaded script to run the profiler over the
Neal> code you're interested in measuring if at all possible.
The cProfile module has the same benefit as hotshot (low run-time cost),
without the downside of long post-processing times. On that basis alone I
would argue that hotshot be dropped.
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