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

[Christian S. <ma...@ap...>]

Hi Paul,

On 2009-05-04 21:52:02 you wrote:
> 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...)

I don't see a problem there. As long as OS X and Windows provide functions to query the appropriate metrics, this should be not much of an issue. Except, that I don't have access to an OS X machine on which to test on (and I didn't to development on Windows in ages), so patches from interested parties might shorten the way to a semi-interoperable solution here.

Regards,
Christian