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misoptimizing

misoptimizing is the present participle and gerund of misoptimize.

Meaning of misoptimize

Verb

misoptimize (third-person singular simple present misoptimizes, present participle misoptimizing, simple past and past participle misoptimized)

  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...2010, Ralf Gruber, Vincent Keller, HPC@Green IT: Green High Performance Computing Methods, page 81

Questions about misoptimizing

What is misoptimizing the present participle and gerund of?
Misoptimizing is the present participle and gerund of misoptimize.

Words near misoptimizing in the dictionary

  1. misoprostol
  2. misoptimization
  3. misoptimize
  4. misoptimized
  5. misoptimizes
  6. misoptimizing
  7. MisOr
  8. misorchestrate
  9. misorchestrated
  10. misorchestrates
  11. misorchestrating

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