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+"""
+This is a convenience script to test the speed and memory usage of Jedi with
+large libraries.
+
+Each library is preloaded by jedi, recording the time and memory consumed by
+each operation.
+
+You can provide additional libraries via command line arguments.
+
+Note: This requires the psutil library, available on PyPI.
+"""
+import time
+import sys
+import psutil
+import jedi
+
+
+def used_memory():
+    """Return the total MB of System Memory in use."""
+    return psutil.virtual_memory().used / 2**20
+
+
+def profile_preload(mod):
+    """Preload a module into Jedi, recording time and memory used."""
+    base = used_memory()
+    t0 = time.time()
+    jedi.preload_module(mod)
+    elapsed = time.time() - t0
+    used = used_memory() - base
+    return elapsed, used
+
+
+def main(mods):
+    """Preload the modules, and print the time and memory used."""
+    t0 = time.time()
+    baseline = used_memory()
+    print('Time (s) | Mem (MB) | Package')
+    print('------------------------------')
+    for mod in mods:
+        elapsed, used = profile_preload(mod)
+        if used > 0:
+            print('%8.1f | %8d | %s' % (elapsed, used, mod))
+    print('------------------------------')
+    elapsed = time.time() - t0
+    used = used_memory() - baseline
+    print('%8.1f | %8d | %s' % (elapsed, used, 'Total'))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    mods = ['re', 'numpy', 'scipy', 'scipy.sparse', 'scipy.stats',
+            'wx', 'decimal', 'PyQt4.QtGui', 'PySide.QtGui', 'Tkinter']
+    mods += sys.argv[1:]
+    main(mods)