profiling.md

Profiling

Profiling should be carried out whenever significant changes are made to the pipeline. Profiling results are saved as .txt and .prof files.

Scripts

Profile SimSwap - profile_simswap.py

This script profiles SimSwap pipeline on a single image pair.

Basic Usage

python profile_simswap.py

Visualisation Tools

Apart from analysing the .txt profiling data, we visualise and explore the .prof profiling data with:

• snakeviz: https://jiffyclub.github.io/snakeviz/
• gprof2dot: https://github.com/jrfonseca/gprof2dot
• flameprof: https://github.com/baverman/flameprof

SnakeViz

Conda Installation

conda install -c conda-forge snakeviz

Basic Usage

snakeviz <path/to/profiling_data>.prof --server

GProf2Dot

Conda Installation

conda install graphviz
conda install -c conda-forge gprof2dot

Basic Usage

python -m gprof2dot -f pstats <path/to/profiling_data>.prof | dot -Tpng -o <path/to/profiling_data>.png

FlameProf

Pip Installation

pip install flameprof

Basic Usage

python -m flameprof <path/to/profiling_data>.prof > <path/to/profiling_data>.svg