[Python-Dev] DTRACE support (original) (raw)

Jesus Cea jcea at jcea.es
Fri Sep 6 17:08:23 CEST 2013

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As far as I know, Erlang, Ruby, PHP, Perl, etc., support Dtrace. Python is embarrasingly missing from this list.

Some examples:

<http://crypt.codemancers.com/posts/2013-04-16-profile-ruby-apps-dtrace-part1/> <http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/18859> <http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/runtime_tools/DTRACE.html>

I have spend a very long time on a patch for Dtrace support in most platforms with dtrace available. Currently working under Solaris and derivatives, and MacOS X. Last time I checked, it would crash FreeBSD because bugs in the dtrace port, but that was a long time ago.

I would like to push this to Python 3.4, and the window is going to be closed soon, so I think this is the time to ask for opinions and support here.

Does Python-Dev have any opinion or interest in this project?. Should I push for it?

Some (not current) details: http://bugs.python.org/issue13405

DTrace is amazing: http://dtrace.org/blogs/

PS: I can't release this code as a PyPI project, because it mess with the inner core of Python.

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