René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Improve Tachyon UX","articleBody":"This is a meta issue to group all the items to improve the UX of the tachyon profiler.\n\n## Tasks\n\n### CLI\n- [x] **Standardize timing arguments** — Currently mixing µs and seconds for related timing args, which is confusing\n- [x] **Duration should default to \"until done\"** - The fact that we sample only for 10 seconds by default is confusing to users and a bad experience \n\n### Workflow\n- [x] **Auto-open browser with results** — Reduce manual steps in the workflow; add `--no-browser` flag to disable\n\n### Flamegraph\n- [x] **Hide runner/bootstrap frames by default** — Top rows showing interpreter startup aren't useful for most profiling tasks\n- [x] **The Gil/gc/exception indicators could be progress bars** — this probably will show the information more clearly and take less space \n- [ ] **Show module names instead of full file paths** — `/home/user/project/pkg/mod.py` → `pkg.mod` for readability\n- [ ] **Show \"self\" time for functions** — Display time spent in function body excluding callees, not just total inclusive time\n- [ ] **Move hotspots to top of sidebar** — This is the most important info; currently buried below logo and stats\n- [ ] **Fix inverted flamegraph width** — Currently shows narrow chart when leaves sum to small percentage, wasting screen space\n\n### Pstats\n- [x] **Fix docs: `-o` output format** — Docs imply text output but it's actually binary pstats format\n- [x] **Standardize `--pstats` behavior** — Output format differs significantly with/without `-o` flag, which is unexpected\n\n\n\nThanks @dmoisset 🖤\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-142934\n* gh-142936\n* gh-142987\n* gh-143178\n* gh-143180\n* gh-143337\n* gh-143388\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/pablogsal","@type":"Person","name":"pablogsal"},"datePublished":"2025-12-18T11:55:17.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/142927/cpython/issues/142927"}