Python Performance Tuning: Glossary

Profiling provides useful information on where to focus optimization efforts.

Different techniques provide a variety of useful information.

Profiling can have an impact on the performance of the program.

cProfile provides information about the functions in a program.

There is some overhead when using cProfile to analyze a program.

line_profiler generates profiles based on the lines in a program.

Line based profiling can provide more information about where a program is performing badly.