Misoptimize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To optimize badly, emphasizing the wrong criteria or failing to take advantage of potential improvements.
"Is anything like this going on inside the program in question as ported to Pleiades? Unless a complete static analysis of the generated object code is done, or unless every input data set is run through a correct version of the program and the output compared with that of the misoptimized version, nobody knows."
Example
More examples"Is anything like this going on inside the program in question as ported to Pleiades? Unless a complete static analysis of the generated object code is done, or unless every input data set is run through a correct version of the program and the output compared with that of the misoptimized version, nobody knows."
Etymology
From mis- + optimize.
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