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optimize out

optimize out verb: to omit (some portion of program logic) through optimization, when it is found to be unused or unnecessary.

Verb

optimize out (third-person singular simple present optimizes out, present participle optimizing out, simple past and past participle optimized out)

  1. (transitive) To omit (some portion of program logic) through optimization, when it is found to be unused or unnecessary.
    • The loop that counts from 1 to 1,000,000 is optimized out by the compiler, because nothing happens inside the loop and the value is not used afterwards.

Forms of optimize out

third-person singular presentoptimizes out
present participleoptimizing out
past participleoptimized out
pastoptimized out

Questions about optimize out

What does optimize out mean?
Optimize out means to omit (some portion of program logic) through optimization, when it is found to be unused or unnecessary.
What part of speech is optimize out?
Optimize out is a verb.
What is the past tense of optimize out?
The past tense of optimize out is optimized out.

Words near optimize out in the dictionary

  1. optimization problem
  2. optimization problems
  3. optimizational
  4. optimizations
  5. optimize
  6. optimize out
  7. optimized
  8. optimized out
  9. optimizer
  10. optimizers
  11. optimizes

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