Add Profiling (code performance analysis) capability

[ErwanDL]

It could be helpful to add profiling capabilities to the VSCode extension, similar to what is possible in PyCharm. The standard library module cProfile already provides a back-end for profiling a Python script, but it could benefit from having a more user-friendly front-end.

A possible first step to integrate this feature would be to add a "Profiling" tab, in which the user could see a table that summarizes the profiling results, and that he could sort and search in, to see what functions incur the most performance overhead. This could be similar to the "Statistics" tab in PyCharm's profiler (see previous link).

Do you think it would be reasonable and would add value to implement such a feature in the Python extension ?

NOTE : I saw that a similar request was made 2 years ago (#733), but I was wondering if your position on this had changed since then, especially as the border between VSCode and IDEs is getting blurrier and blurrier (which is definitely a good thing IMO).

[karthiknadig]

Thank you for the suggestion! We have marked this issue as "needs decision" to make sure we have a conversation about your idea. We plan to leave this feature request open for at least a month to see how many 👍 votes the opening comment gets to help us make our decision.

[ebardie]

I've come to this page searching for how to profile Python from VSCode. I can debug Python code within VSCode, so profiling is a very obvious next step.

[kleinicke]

I was also looking everywhere for this (and am here since I also wanted to write a feature request).
The complete field of profiling for python is somehow not enhancing. Most tools to use are older than 10 years.
Maybe it's time for vs code to revolutionize this topic (or at least catch up to PyCharm).

[rickstaa]

This would be an amazing feature to have! It would allow me to do everything in vscode instead of switching between spyder and vscode!