On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:38:58 -0700 "Gregory P. Smith" <g...@krypto.org> wrote: > One word: profile. > > Looking at stat counts alone rather than measuring the total time spent in > all types of system calls from strace and profiling is not really useful. ;)
Agreed, but I can't seem to cope properly with gprof. Any suggestion? > Another thing to keep an eye out for within a startup profile: how often > does the gc collect? our default gc collection thresholds haven't been > tuned in ages afaik [or am i forgetting something] and I know of > pathological cases at work where simply doing a gc.disable() before > importing a bunch of modules (tons of generated protocol buffer code) and > re-enabling it afterwards speeds up this application's startup way more > significantly than seems healthy in 2.x... that could be related to the > particulars of the protobuf module code though. That's a good suggestion indeed. Thanks Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
