English Explanatory Dictionary

premature optimization

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of wasting resources on optimising source code that does not represent a significant bottleneck.

Word forms

premature optimization premature optimizations premature optimisation

Etymology

It was first coined by Donald Knuth in his 1974 monograph The Art of Computer Programming which won a Turing Award.

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