Hi all, I talked with FunkyBob on IRC a few weeks ago and told him I was 
interested in optimizing the template language. One of the suggestions he 
made was to make a profiling/benchmarking framework to test changes. While 
I wouldn't call it a framework yet I have a script set up to run the django 
template language on a few simple templates and profile individual 
functions. Right now I have the render(), context(), and Template() methods 
added but definitely plan on adding more. You can read more on the github 
page to learn the exact commands but the script can run individual test 
cases and print out a pstats log. By specifying -o you can also create a 
callgraph. 

At this point I'm looking for ways to improve. Right now the script 
implementation is kinda messy.

https://github.com/inondle/django-template-benchmark


The main thing I want to improve is the way that test cases are run and 
implemented. To add a test case in this implementation you would have to:

   - 
   
   Write a function and decorate it with @cprofile
   - 
   
   Create a new elif statement at the bottom and check for a keyword
   - 
   
   Run the script with -t <KEYWORD>
   
While this isn't a terrible work flow it leaves a lot to be desired. I 
would like to make it more like how the unittest module works with a setup 
and test method but rather than checking assertions it just profiles the 
code and prints out a pstats log for each test case. The pstats log can 
then be rendered further into a call graph or something else. 


I've tried to build a profiler class which uses method introspection to run 
tests but it gets really complicated really fast. I've looked online and 
can't find a way to subclass or extend the unittest module to do this. Is 
there a way that I could get the feel of a unittest module but for 
profiling code instead of running unit tests?


I also need to improve the templates that I run. Right now they are very 
simple and only render a few lines with a pretty minimal context. If anyone 
has suggestions on test templates I'm all ears.

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