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# sampleprof - Lua Sample Profiling
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Sample profiling is a code profiling technique where you randomly stop a
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program and inspect its current state to learn about it. This approach is
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faster and less disruptive than observing every line of code as it runs, since
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observation has overhead. With a reasonable sample size, it's easy to get a
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clear picture of which parts of the codebase are taking up most of the time,
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while allowing the code to run almost unaffected.
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## Usage
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The Lua library returns a single function, which takes a function to run,
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performs sample profiling on it, and gives a table of results. The results
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table is a mapping from `"filename.lua:line"` to number of samples. By default,
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samples are propagated up the callstack, with a decay (0.619).
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```lua
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local sample = require('sampleprof')
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local profile = sample(fn)
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```
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