[TIP] Use unittests for profiling?

W. Matthew Wilson matt at tplus1.com
Thu May 13 14:39:10 PDT 2010


On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:00 PM, jason kirtland <jek at discorporate.us> wrote:
> The SQLAlchemy test suite implements a profiling test decorator that
> asserts that a test case uses only a certain number of function calls
> to get the job done.  As written, it does not provide a direct measure
> of performance, more of a warning flag that goes up if a refactoring
> unexpectedly adds or removes overhead to a measured critical path.

I'm looking at your @profiling.function_call_count right now.  I bet I
can learn a lot from that.  Thanks for the link!

Matt

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