The line highlights on the heatmap are driven by the URL hash and the
`:target` selector. When clicking a caller/callee link for the line that
was already selected, the hash doesn't change, so the browser keeps the
existing target state and doesn't restart the animation. Due to this the
highlight only works the first time.
With this fix, line navigation goes through JavaScript. If the target
URL already points to the current location, the highlight is replayed by
clearing the animation, forcing style recalculation, and restoring it.
The `baseline_self` variable isn't initialized for structural elided
roots. This variable is accessed later unconditionally and leads to a
crash.
The child process ends up being invoked with `--diff_flamegraph` instead
of the correct argument.
Adds `python -m profiling.sampling dump <pid>`, which prints a single
traceback-style snapshot of a running process's Python stack via the
existing `_remote_debugging` unwinder. Supports per-thread status,
source line highlighting, optional bytecode opcodes, and async-aware
task reconstruction (`--async-aware`, default `--async-mode=all`).
Differential flame graphs compare two profiling runs and highlight where
performance has changed. This makes it easier to detect regressions
introduced by code changes and to verify that optimizations have the
intended effect.
The visualization renders the current profile with frame widths
representing current time consumption. Color is then applied to show the
difference relative to the baseline profile: red gradients indicate
regressions, while blue gradients indicate improvements.
Some call paths may disappear entirely between profiles. These are
referred to as elided stacks and occur when optimizations remove code
paths or when certain branches stop executing. When elided stacks are
present, an "Elided" toggle is displayed, allowing the user to switch
between the main differential view and a view showing only the removed
paths.
Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo Salgado <Pablogsal@gmail.com>
When running the `profiling.sampling` module in pstats mode, the output
can be emitted in two different ways: text to stdout or a binary file
when the `--output` argument is set.
The current documentation and help text is confusing as it does not
distinguish between these two output formats so it may be surprising to
the user to get different formats depending whether `--output` is set or not.
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