On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:14 AM, RGK <bl...@empty.blank> wrote: > I'm writing a python app on a Mac (in Eclipse + PyDev w/ Python2.5 & > wxPython under OSX 10.4) > > As I make program architecture decisions, it would be nice to be able to > profile the choices. Should I add that extra thread? Is this big-assed xml > object I just created horribly bloated or kind of ordinary. > > Is there anything out there I should look into to if I want to see how those > things are affecting my app? The closest I have is the widget iStat, but > it's a very static low resolution view of what's really going on.
On Mac OS X, dtrace can sometimes be quite useful. The Apple-provided python has the necessary 'probes'. http://blogs.sun.com/binujp/entry/dtrace_provider_for_python There are some useful scripts in the dtrace toolkit geared toward python: http://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html#DTraceToolkit If you want dtrace support for a bare python (built from sources), I made a quick patch, "documented" here: http://cournape.wordpress.com/?s=dtrace I don't know if it works for 2.6 (I doubt it would work out of the box - I don't claim any understanding of dtrace internals, I just applied the apple patches, removing all the apple specifics I did not care about). David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
