PyCon 2017 had a really good talk about debuggers [1] which covered how PEP523 [2] is making debugging python 3.6+ code much faster. I think that a profiler is

PyCon 2017 had a really good talk about debuggers [1] which covered how PEP523 [2] is making debugging python 3.6+ code much faster. I think that a profiler is somewhat similar, however instead of, potentially, stopping execution on each line it is collecting data. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdObDUbLjdg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdObDUbLjdg [2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0523/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0523/