A cProfile dump of uvcdat startup. (which commands to reproduce at the top)

uvcdat startup profile dump

~/src/uvcdat$ python -m cProfile -o profile_dump vistrails/vistrails/uvcdat.py 
~/src/uvcdat$ python -m pstats
% read profile_dump
profile_dump% sort time
profile_dump% stats
Thu Oct  3 10:33:49 2013    profile_dump

         6295159 function calls (6228619 primitive calls) in 21.119 seconds

   Ordered by: internal time

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