meaning of profile
1. An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.
2. A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.
3. A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like.
4. A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
5. to draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an architectural member.
6. To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it.
7. PROFILE Simple language for matching and scoring data. "Users Manual for the PROFILE System", Cambridge Computer Assoc May 1974. [Jargon File] profile 1. A control file for a program, especially a text file automatically read from each users home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in order to customise the programs behaviour. Used to avoid hard-coded choices see also dot file, rc file. 2. A report on the amounts of time spent in each routine of a program, used to find and tune away the hot spots in it. This sense is often verbed. Some profiling modes report units other than time such as call counts and/or report at granularities other than per-routine, but the idea is similar. PROFS Professional Office System PROGENY 1961. Report generator for UNIVAX SS90. proglet /proglet/ [UK] A short extempore program written to meet an immediate, transient need. Often written in BASIC, rarely more than a dozen lines long and containing no subroutines. The largest amount of code that can be written off the top of ones head, that does not need any editing, and that runs correctly the first time this amount varies significantly according to ones skill and the language one is using. Compare toy program, noddy, one-liner wars. [Jargon File] program software Program Composition Notation PCN A specification language for parallelism between C and Fortran modules. PCN provides a simple language for specifying concurrent algorithms, interfaces to Fortran and C, a portable toolkit that allows applications to be developed on a workstation or small parallel computer and run unchanged on supercomputers and integrated debugging and performance analysis tools. PCN was developed at Argonne National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology. It has been used to develop a wide variety of applications, in areas such as climate modelling, fluid dynamics, computational biology, chemistry, and circuit simulation. Version 2. 0 runs on networks of workstations: Sun-4, NeXT, RS/6000, SGI; multicomputers: iPSC/860, Touchstone DELTA; and shared memory multiprocessors: Symmetry/Dynix. ftp://info. mcs. anl. gov/pub/pcn. E-mail: Ian Foster
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