profiler

  1. Noun.  A mechanical device that cuts complex, irregular shapes by tracing a pattern.
  2. Noun.  A person who creates a profile for something or someone, especially a psychological profile for an unknown criminal.
  3. Noun.  (computing) A software program that measures the performance of different portions of another program in order to locate bottlenecks.

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