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+;;; Hy profiling macros
+;;
+;; Copyright (c) 2013 Paul R. Tagliamonte <tag@pault.ag>
+;;
+;; Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+;; copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+;; to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+;; the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+;; and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+;; Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+;;
+;; The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+;; all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+;;
+;; THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+;; IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+;; FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
+;; THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+;; LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+;; FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
+;; DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+;;
+;;; These macros make debugging where bottlenecks exist easier.
+
+
+(defmacro/g! profile [&rest body]
+  " Profile a bit of code "
+  `(do
+     (import cProfile pstats)
+
+     (if-python2
+       (import [StringIO [StringIO]])
+       (import [io [StringIO]]))
+
+     (setv ~g!hy-pr (.Profile cProfile))
+     (.enable ~g!hy-pr)
+     (do ~@body)
+     (.disable ~g!hy-pr)
+     (setv ~g!hy-s (StringIO))
+     (setv ~g!hy-ps
+           (.sort-stats (kwapply (.Stats pstats ~g!hy-pr) {"stream" ~g!hy-s})))
+     (.print-stats ~g!hy-ps)
+     (print (.getvalue ~g!hy-s))))