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dtracing Python

Speed is often used as an excuse for bad programming (premature optimization is the root of all evil and all that). Yet understanding the causes of poor performance of the language system, as opposed to user code, isn't all that easy.

If you are using an open source language implementation, and have access to something clever like dtrace, it might be easier than you think.

By Ehud Lamm at 2005-05-13 09:12 | Implementation | other blogs | 5514 reads