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Using cProfile

In this video Dr. Jussi Enkovaara gives a brief example of finding performance bottlenecks with cProfile tool.

cProfile is powerful performance analysis tool included in the Python standard library.

In this video we walk through the main steps when investigating performance of Python programs with cProfile. As an example, we use a simple program that calculated Mandelbrot fractal.

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Python in High Performance Computing

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