[lathiat]

I've been enjoying pyflame from Uber - which the author quotes in their info

> The only other Python profiler that runs totally in a separate process is pyflame, which profiles remote python processes by using the ptrace system call. While pyflame is a great project, it doesn't support Python 3.7 yet and doesn't work on OSX or Windows.') > Py-spy works by directly reading the memory of the python program using the process_vm_readv system call on Linux, the vm_read call on OSX or the ReadProcessMemory call on Windows.

I think ptrace is fundamentally letting you do the same thing in terms of how pyflame is using it.. and the same ptrace access permission governs whether you can use process_vm_readv

The real win for this project is a real-time "top" or "perf top" style UI instead of only generating flamegraph output. I love that feature, and will be particularly good for quick shot "what is this process doing" type info as opposed to specifically profiling some timeframe to analyse the resulting flamegraph (which is all pyflame let you do)

Nice work!