misoptimize

Verb

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...
   • 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...
   • 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...