Profiling the code of FreeCAD helps find bottlenecks in the algorithms used to create or manipulate objects.
To profile Python code use the standard cProfile
module to define start and end points to profile in the code.
import cProfile
pr = cProfile.Profile()
pr.enable()
# --------------------------------------
# Lines of code that you want to profile
# --------------------------------------
pr.disable()
pr.dump_stats("/tmp/profile.cprof")
Then install and use pyprof2calltree
to convert the profile output into cachegrind input.
pyprof2calltree -i /tmp/profile.cprof -o /tmp/callgrind.out
Then visualize this information with kcachegrind
for Linux or qcachegrind
for Windows.
kcachegrind /tmp/callgrind.out
cProfile
and python
.