overoptimize

verb

Etymology

From over- + optimize.

Definitions

  1. To optimize excessively.

    • Overoptimizing the source code of a computer program may yield insignificant performance gains while making it difficult to read and maintain.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overoptimize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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