overoptimize

To optimize excessively.

Verb

  1. To optimize excessively.
    • Overoptimizing the source code of a computer program may yield insignificant performance gains while making it difficult to read and maintain.

Origin

From over- + optimize.

Forms

overoptimizes overoptimizing overoptimized

Related

overoptimization

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