On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 12:14 +0100, Armin Rigo wrote: > Still, people generally agree that profile.py, while taking a longer > time overall, gives more meaningful results than hotshot. Now Brett's > student, Floris, extended hotshot to allow custom timers. This is > essential, because it enables testing. The timing parts of hotshot were > not tested previously.
hotshot used to produce incorrect data because it couldn't track exits from functions due to exception propagation. We fixed that a while back and since then it's been pretty useful for us. While I'm not sure I like the idea of three profilers in the stdlib, I think in this case (unless they're incompatible) it would make sense to keep hotshot around, at least until any new profiler proves it's better over a couple of releases. -Barry
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