Archives week 11 of 2011

Dave Malcolm's talk at PyCon 2011 mentioned Meliae, which is a memory-crawler that stores out a description of all of the objects in RAM when triggered.  It's Python-level, so not something you can use with Dave's gdb stuff, but it still sounds pretty useful.

Anway, while the summary stuff it produces is okay, but ...

Want to see the output of your nosetests run in a format that you can hand to someone non-technical (who doesn't mind it being ugly)?  Here's a little script to convert the result of nosetests --with-xunit to an ugly, but functional HTML file.  I can't say I really see this as a long-term solution, as ...

Another day playing with PyPy. First up was a pleasant surprise in that the 2x slowdown reduced with the currently nightly build[1], bringing performance up from 40,000cps to ~60,000cps.

After that, applied a micro-optimization that got me about a 6% speedup; I eliminated the use of a state "struct object" (object that just used regular ...