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profile
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n. 1. A control file for a program, esp. a text file automatically read from
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each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in
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order to customize the program's behavior. Used to avoid hardcoded choices
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(see also dot file , rc file ). 2. [techspeak] A report on the amounts of
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time spent in each routine of a program, used to find and tune away the hot
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spots in it. This sense is often verbed. Some profiling modes report units
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other than time (such as call counts) and/or report at granularities other
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than per-routine, but the idea is similar. 3.[techspeak] A subset of a
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standard used for a particular purpose.
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