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Introduction to the profiler
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A "profiler" is a program that describes the run time performance of a
program, providing a variety of statistics.  This documentation
describes the profiler functionality provided in the modules `profile'
and `pstats'.  This profiler provides "deterministic profiling" of any
Python programs.  It also provides a series of report generation tools
to allow users to rapidly examine the results of a profile operation.