[Dev] event profiling and profile tool

[Ted Leung]

It would also be good to coordinate your CLI with Phillip's code for 
profiling the unit tests...

Ted

On Feb 7, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Alec Flett wrote:

>  I just checked in a fix to:
> http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2329
>
>  This enables "Event profiling" to make performance testing much 
> easier. You can now profile application-level events by simply going 
> to Test->Start Profiling. All block events that get executed will be 
> profiled to a file called "Events.prof" in the current directory.
>
>  The important thing is that this is specifically profiling events - 
> i.e. it doesn't profile any noise from other actions like dragging a 
> mouse around the ui. This makes it easy to test specific actions. For 
> instance you can click "Start Profiling", delete an item, and then 
> click "Stop Profiling"
>
>  The file is in the standard python profile format. I have also 
> written a simple command-line profile analysis tool so you can 
> navigate the profile output at will - but I didn't know if we had a 
> place to check in external tools? Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>  Alec
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