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<h1>A note on execution times, speed and profiling<a class="headerlink" href="#a-note-on-execution-times-speed-and-profiling" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<li><p>About (time) profiling with Python (2 or 3): <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cProfile</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">profile</span></code> <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/2/library/profile.html">in Python 2 documentation</a> (<a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/2/library/profile.html">in Python 3 documentation</a>), <a class="reference external" href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/7693928/5889533">this StackOverflow thread</a>, <a class="reference external" href="https://www.huyng.com/posts/python-performance-analysis">this blog post</a>, and the documentation of <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/rkern/line_profiler"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">line_profiler</span></code></a> (to profile lines instead of functions) and <a class="reference external" href="http://pycallgraph.slowchop.com/en/master/"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pycallgraph</span></code></a> (to illustrate function calls) and <a class="reference external" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/yappi/"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">yappi</span></code></a> (which seems to be thread aware).</p></li>
<li><p>See also <a class="reference external" href="https://www.logilab.org/blogentry/6883"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pyreverse</span></code></a> to get nice UML-like diagrams illustrating the relationships of packages and classes between each-other.</p></li>
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<h2><em>A better approach?</em><a class="headerlink" href="#a-better-approach" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>In January, I tried to use the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/">PyCharm</a> Python IDE, and it has an awesome profiler included!
But it was too cumbersome to use…</p>
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<h2><em>An even better approach?</em><a class="headerlink" href="#an-even-better-approach" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Well now… I know my codebase, and I know how costly or efficient every new piece of code should be, if I find empirically something odd, I explore with one of the above-mentionned module…</p>
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