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+Nemesis is a prototype [[https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html][asyncio]] profiler which finds blocking
+coroutines through use of [[https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz][causal profiling]]. Nemesis directly measures
+optimization potential without instrumentation by predicting the
+impact of how coroutine optimization has an inpact on the overall
+throughput or latency of tasks scheduled in the event loop.
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