My Workflow To Profile Python Code Using VS Code

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This article describes how I use VS Code to profile Python code to identify CPU or memory problems.

To make things more concrete and practical, I will demonstrate how the workflow works by quickly finding the source of high CPU utilization in a real-world project: the RulePolicy class in the rasa open source project in release 2.8.22.

The code to reproduce the workflow described in this article is here.

Imagine you received a bug report claiming that a chatbot built using rasa has unreasonably high CPU utilization and the report writer claims… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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