scalene VS pytest-austin

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scalene pytest-austin
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9.3 2.1
8 days ago 5 months ago
Python Python
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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scalene

Posts with mentions or reviews of scalene. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-10.
  • Memray – A Memory Profiler for Python
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2024
    I collected a list of profilers (also memory profilers, also specifically for Python) here: https://github.com/albertz/wiki/blob/master/profiling.md

    Currently I actually need a Python memory profiler, because I want to figure out whether there is some memory leak in my application (PyTorch based training script), and where exactly (in this case, it's not a problem of GPU memory, but CPU memory).

    I tried Scalene (https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene), which seems to be powerful, but somehow the output it gives me is not useful at all? It doesn't really give me a flamegraph, or a list of the top lines with memory allocations, but instead it gives me a listing of all source code lines, and prints some (very sparse) information on each line. So I need to search through that listing now by hand to find the spots? Maybe I just don't know how to use it properly.

    I tried Memray, but first ran into an issue (https://github.com/bloomberg/memray/issues/212), but after using some workaround, it worked now. I get a flamegraph out, but it doesn't really seem accurate? After a while, there don't seem to be any new memory allocations at all anymore, and I don't quite trust that this is correct.

    There is also Austin (https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin), which I also wanted to try (have not yet).

    Somehow this experience so far was very disappointing.

    (Side node, I debugged some very strange memory allocation behavior of Python before, where all local variables were kept around after an exception, even though I made sure there is no reference anymore to the exception object, to the traceback, etc, and I even called frame.clear() for all frames to really clear it. It turns out, frame.f_locals will create another copy of all the local variables, and the exception object and all the locals in the other frame still stay alive until you access frame.f_locals again. At that point, it will sync the f_locals again with the real (fast) locals, and then it can finally free everything. It was quite annoying to find the source of this problem and to find workarounds for it. https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/113939)

  • Scalene: A high-performance CPU GPU and memory profiler for Python
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 18 Jun 2023
  • Scalene: A high-performance, CPU, GPU, and memory profiler for Python
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2023
  • How can I find out why my python is so slow?
    2 projects | /r/Python | 30 May 2023
    Use this my fren: https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene
  • Making Python 100x faster with less than 100 lines of Rust
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2023
    You should take a look at Scalene - it's even better.

    https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene

  • Blog Post: Making Python 100x faster with less than 100 lines of Rust
    4 projects | /r/rust | 29 Mar 2023
    I like seeing another Python profiler. The one I've been playing with is Scalene (GitHub). It does some fun things related to letting you see how much things are moving across the system Python memory boundary.
  • Cum as putea sa imbunatatesc timpul de rulare al pitonului?
    1 project | /r/programare | 14 Mar 2023
    Ai vazut "Python Performance Matters" by Emery Berger (Strange Loop 2022)? E in principiu o prezentare si demo cu Scalene.
  • Scalene - A Python CPU/GPU/memory profiler with optimization proposals
    1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 19 Feb 2023
  • Scalene: A Python CPU/GPU/memory profiler with optimization proposals
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2023
  • OpenAI might be training its AI technology to replace some software engineers, report says
    4 projects | /r/programming | 28 Jan 2023
    I tried out some features of machine learning models suggesting optimisations on code profiled by scalene and pretty much all of them would make the code less efficient, both time and memory wise. I am not worried. The devil is in the details and ML will not replace all of us anytime soon

pytest-austin

Posts with mentions or reviews of pytest-austin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing scalene and pytest-austin you can also consider the following projects:

flask-profiler - a flask profiler which watches endpoint calls and tries to make some analysis.

viztracer - VizTracer is a low-overhead logging/debugging/profiling tool that can trace and visualize your python code execution.

palanteer - Visual Python and C++ nanosecond profiler, logger, tests enabler

python-benchmark-harness - A micro/macro benchmark framework for the Python programming language that helps with optimizing your software.

memray - Memray is a memory profiler for Python

JEval - ⚡ JEval helps you to evaluate your JMeter test plan and provides recommendation before you start your performance testing. All contributions welcome 🙏.

pyshader - Write modern GPU shaders in Python!

gprof2dot - Converts profiling output to a dot graph.

dask-memusage - A low-impact profiler to figure out how much memory each task in Dask is using

Dask - Parallel computing with task scheduling

austin-tui - The top-like text-based user interface for Austin