Rbspy as an inspiration?

[dswalter]

My first thought on seeing this repo was that it seems to have been inspired by Julia Evans' https://github.com/rbspy/rbspy. They share some similarities in terms of being profilers of dynamic languages written in rust, using the name spy, and generating icicle graphs.

Might it be worth mentioning that inspiration somewhere in the readme?

[benfred]

rbspy was the inspiration for this project! I mentioned that quickly in the README here https://github.com/benfred/py-spy/#credits . The flamegraph code is actually taken directly from rbspy , and I've tried to give attribution for that.

[dswalter]

Excellent! Can't imagine how I missed that.

Cool tool!

[pickfire]

Recently I stumbled upon https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2023/03/28/how-to-read-icicle-and-flame-graphs/ and noticed that py-spy draw icicle graph but in red, based on the article flame graph should be bottom up, and icicle graph should be blue, although it did mentioned that the color does not matter.