Profiling How-To
There's a heavy performance penalty when using conda vs standard python distributions. So, these tests are preferably done with python installations that come with the system.
To dump the profiling information
> python3 -m cProfile -s cumtime -o <profiling.log> <test_1.py> -c 1000
To view the performance data :
> pyprof2calltree -k -i <profiling.log>