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When it comes to profiling in Python, never underestimate the power of the standard library's profiler. You can supply it with a custom timing function when instantiating the Profile type [1], and as far as the module is concerned, this can be any function which returns a monotonically-increasing counter.

This means that you can turn the standard profiler into a memory profiler by providing a timing function which reports either total memory allocation or a meaningful proxy for allocation. I've had good results in the past using a timing function which returns the number of minor page faults (via resource.getrusage).

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/profile.html#profile.Profi...