Kirill Smelkov patch: try to use 'cProfile' instead of the slower pure python 'profile' module

IPython/Magic.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 b''
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """Magic functions for InteractiveShell.
 
-$Id: Magic.py 1922 2006-11-21 20:56:48Z vivainio $"""
+$Id: Magic.py 1927 2006-11-24 15:37:21Z vivainio $"""
 
 #*****************************************************************************
 #       Copyright (C) 2001 Janko Hauser <[e-mail]> and
@@ -36,11 +36,16 b' from cStringIO import StringIO'
 from getopt import getopt,GetoptError
 from pprint import pprint, pformat
 
-# profile isn't bundled by default in Debian for license reasons
+# cProfile was added in Python2.5
 try:
-    import profile,pstats
+    import cProfile as profile
+    import pstats
 except ImportError:
-    profile = pstats = None
+    # profile isn't bundled by default in Debian for license reasons
+    try:
+        import profile,pstats
+    except ImportError:
+        profile = pstats = None
 
 # Homebrewed
 import IPython

doc/manual_base.lyx

@@ -438,11 +438,15 b' Profiler support.'
 profile.run()
 \family default 
 ) or complete programs under the profiler's control.
- While this is possible with the standard 
+ While this is possible with standard 
+\family typewriter 
+cProfile
+\family default 
+ or 
 \family typewriter 
 profile
 \family default 
- module, IPython wraps this functionality with magic commands (see 
+ modules, IPython wraps this functionality with magic commands (see 
 \family typewriter 
 `%prun'
 \family default