What does Go's pprof stand for?

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pprof is a profiling tool of Go. But what does the word pprof stand for?

It might be a silly question but I can't get an answer of it from anywhere.

Google's pprof source code

Go blog article about pprof

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From the godoc for the package: Performance profiles.

pprof is a tool for collection, manipulation and visualization of performance profiles.