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misoptimize en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + optimize.

Meanings

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. 2010, Ralf Gruber, Vincent Keller, HPC@Green IT: Green High Performance Computing Methods, page 81:
   • Inattentive consumers are misoptimizing: they fail to recognize opportunities to save money by choosing products with lower ancillary costs. 2013, Fereidoon P. Sioshansi, Energy Efficiency: Towards the End of Demand Growth, page 148:
   • This effect is related to the broader philosophies of libertarian paternalism (Sunstein and Thaler, 2003), which advocate policies that do not infringe on freedom of choice but could improve choices by the subset of people who misoptimize. 2015, Ottmar Edenhofer, Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change:
   • In addition, many individuals may not be misoptimizing, so taxing or subsidizing them may introduce new distortions. 2017, Robert A. Moffitt, Tax Policy and the Economy - Volume 31:

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