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line_profiler
Python2015–2020
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line_profiler

(OLD REPO) Line-by-line profiling for Python - Current repo ->

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6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
3.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

(OLD REPO) Line-by-line profiling for Python - Current repo ->

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 11:34:28 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-07-28 19:39:43 UTC to 2020-01-01 20:56:23 UTC.

01232015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> We changed timeit to now report average +/- standard deviation, which is better than the misleading minimum value reported in CPython. While I don't agree with many of the CPython devs ideas/decisions/crawling-pace-decision-making, I don't like the tone with which PyPy devs refer to them most of the time. It's like a rivalry which is ignored from the CPython side, even unacknowledged. And PyPy is not the Holy Grail of Python, it's just another implementation which runs into its own problems on some places[0], so it feels weird seeing them with kind of constant badgering of "the other guys". The feature looks interesting, still if you don't like a particular feature/profiler/timer for Python, there's nothing stoping you from making your own[1], like kernprof which is amazing. [0] for example, if you don't follow RPythons "way of doing th
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ings" you can end up with even slower performance than CPython -- I know because I've done it! [1] https://github.com/rkern/line_profiler#id7
In PyPy2.7 v5.6 released – stdlib 2.7.12 support, C-API improvements, and more

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