Re: [pyprof-devel] [Python-Dev] RFC: Threading-Aware Profiler for Python

[Paul M. <p.f...@gm...>]

2009/5/4 Bill Janssen <ja...@pa...>:
> Hi, Christian.
>
> Christian Schubert <ma...@ap...> wrote:
>
>> I've created an alternative profiler module which queries per-thread
>> CPU usage via netlink/taskstats, which limits the applicability to
>> Linux (which shouldn't be much of an issue, profiling is usually not
>> done by end users).
>
> A surprisingly large # of developers are running on OS X these days,
> though.  I suggest make it work there, too.

And Windows. I doubt that the various Windows-specific modules
available were developed on Linux. And I wouldn't assume that all of
the platform-neutral modules are developed on Linux, or even that the
developers have access to Linux. (I know I don't, short of building a
brand new virtual machine...)

Paul.