Profiling web-edit with Python 3.15: flame graphs and source heatmaps
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12th October 2026
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Profiling web-edit with Python 3.15: flame graphs and source heatmaps
— Profiling the unmodified web-edit app with Python 3.15’s built-in `profiling.sampling` revealed that mixed line-ending preservation dominated a busy editing workload: `preserve_endings` appeared in 64.8% of 15,296 recorded CPU stacks, with `SequenceMatcher.find_longest_match` contributing 38.3% of leaf samples. Sampling all threads was essential, since 95.1% of stacks came from AnyIO’s worker thread and would have been missed by a main-thread-only profile.
I put the new Python 3.15 profiler through its paces by having GPT-6 Astra Extra High in Codex run it against my new web-edit app:
I need a Python 3.15 flame graph and heatmap demo of the "web-edit" app from PyPI - research first then make me those demos
Here's the resulting example flame graph and heatmap.
Posted 12th October 2026 at 4:58 pm
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