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premature optimizations

premature optimizations is the plural of premature optimization.

Meaning of premature optimization

Noun

premature optimization (countable and uncountable, plural premature optimizations)

  1. The act of wasting resources on optimising source code that does not represent a significant bottleneck.
    • The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.1973, Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming

Questions about premature optimizations

What is premature optimizations the plural of?
Premature optimizations is the plural of premature optimization.

Words near premature optimizations in the dictionary

  1. premature ejaculator
  2. premature ejaculators
  3. premature optimisation
  4. premature optimisations
  5. premature optimization
  6. premature optimizations
  7. prematurely
  8. prematureness
  9. prematures
  10. prematurities
  11. prematurity

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