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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>profile</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="priority-interrupt.html" title="priority interrupt"/><link rel="next" href="progasm.html" title="progasm"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">profile</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="priority-interrupt.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="progasm.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="profile"/><dt xmlns="" id="profile"><b>profile</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A control file for a program, esp. a text file automatically
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read from each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by
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the user in order to customize the program's behavior. Used to avoid
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<a href="../H/hardcoded.html"><i class="glossterm">hardcoded</i></a> choices (see also
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<a href="../D/dot-file.html"><i class="glossterm">dot file</i></a>, <a href="../R/rc-file.html"><i class="glossterm">rc file</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [techspeak] A report on the amounts of time spent in each routine
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of a program, used to find and <a href="../T/tune.html"><i class="glossterm">tune</i></a> away the
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<a href="../H/hot-spot.html"><i class="glossterm">hot spot</i></a>s in it. This sense is often verbed. Some
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profiling modes report units other than time (such as call counts) and/or
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report at granularities other than per-routine, but the idea is similar.
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3.[techspeak] A subset of a standard used for a particular purpose. This
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sense confuses hackers who wander into the weird world of ISO standards no
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end!</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="priority-interrupt.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="progasm.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">priority interrupt </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> progasm</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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