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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-10-07 03:12:08 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-10-07 03:12:08 (GMT)
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Remove code and docs for the OldProfile and HotProfile classes: code
hasn't worked in years, docs were wrong, and they aren't interesting anymore regardless.
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to cause wrong output, including spurious claims of recursive
functions and attribution of time spent to the wrong function.
+ The code and documentation for the derived OldProfile and HotProfile
+ profiling classes was removed. The code hasn't worked for years (if
+ you tried to use them, they raised exceptions). OldProfile
+ intended to reproduce the behavior of the profiler Python used more
+ than 7 years ago, and isn't interesting anymore. HotProfile intended
+ to provide a faster profiler (but producing less information), and
+ that's a worthy goal we intend to meet via a different approach (but
+ without losing information).
+
- quopri's encode and decode methods take an optional header parameter,
which indicates whether output is intended for the header 'Q' encoding.