The _hotshot module uses the gettimeofday function to profile the run 
time.

I enhanced the hotshot module in Python 2.5.2 to use a high resolution 
timer where available (RDTSC on x86/_64, MFTB/U on PowerPC and gethrtime 
on Solaris).

The improved hotshot module has been tested on 32-bit MacOS X 10.4.11 
Tiger (Intel) and 10.3.9 Panther (PPC), on 64-bit RHEL 3u7 (Opteron) and 
on 64-bit Solaris 10.

The 3 modified files are Modules/_hotshot.c, Lib/hotshot/log.py and 
Lib/hotshot/stats.py are attached.

Do *not* use the attached files.  A fix is forthcoming.  My apologies.

Attached are the improved hotspot files, rev 2.  The changes are rather 
drastic, in particular since hires time delta's may exceed 32-bit int.

These 3 files have been tested with Python 2.5.2 only and on 32-bit 
Linux and MacOS X and on 64-bit Linux and Solaris 10.  They do pass the 
hotspot and other tests.

However, no other platforms or compilers have been tested.  Except for 
64-bit PPC, the code should fall back to the previous behavior using 
gettimeofday.

Here is another version of the profiler files with 7 minor changes in the 
_hotshot.c file.  Use this hires_version3 set, if any.

There are 7 other, potentially serious issues in the original _hotshot.c 
file.  All those are being fixed for the next version of the enhanced 
hotshot files.

The 7 issues are:

1) functions flush_data and do_stop may create an infinite recursion on 
line 567.

2) The pack_string and pack_add_info functions do not check for string 
lengths exceeding BUFFERSIZE and may corrupt memory in that case.

3) In line 1182, linetimings should be frametimngs:
   {"frametimings", T_LONG, offsetof(ProfilerObject, linetimings), 
READONLY},

4) Coverage members frametimings, linetimings and lineevents are set on 
line 1562 ff. after different values may have been written into the log 
file header by function write_header on lines 1440 ff.

5) The coverage__doc__ on line 1546 is incomplete.

6) At several places, errors are detected but not reported and not sets.

7) An int value is passed where a long is specified or expected.  T_LONG 
should be T_INT on lines 1182-1184 and there are several calls to PyInt_FromLong with an int argument on line 487 ff. and other places.

Attached is the latest, hopefully final version of the enhanced and 
improved hotshot profiler files.  In addition to fixes for the 7 issues 
mentioned previously, type Py_ssize_t is used instead of size_t.  Use 
this verion 4 and discard all previous ones.

Please review this code in file _hotshot.c and let me know of any rule 
or guideline violations.  I am more than happy to correct any mistakes.

Attached is yet another, final update of the enhancements to the hotshot 
profiler.  It includes modifications of all 3 files, Modules/_hotshot.c, 
Lib/hotshot/log.py and Lib/hotshot/stats.py.

Here are the forward diffs of the 3 files against the version in the 
trunk.

May I ask what the reasoning is for further developing hotshot as part
of the core?  My understanding, based on discussions on python-dev, is
that hotshot is being deprecated in favor of cProfile.

If hotshot still provides functionality that's interesting (and it may),
perhaps it makes sense to maintain and improve it in a separate
distribution.