misoptimize

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ optimize

Verb

misoptimize (third-person singular simple present misoptimizes, present participle misoptimizing, simple past and past participle misoptimized)

1. To optimize badly, emphasizing the wrong criteria or failing to take advantage of potential improvements.
   • 2010, Ralf Gruber, Vincent Keller, HPC@Green IT: Green High Performance Computing Methods, page 81:

     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.

   • 2013, Fereidoon P. Sioshansi, Energy Efficiency: Towards the End of Demand Growth, page 148:

     Inattentive consumers are misoptimizing: they fail to recognize opportunities to save money by choosing products with lower ancillary costs.

   • 2015, Ottmar Edenhofer, Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change:

     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.

   • 2017, Robert A. Moffitt, Tax Policy and the Economy - Volume 31:

     In addition, many individuals may not be misoptimizing, so taxing or subsidizing them may introduce new distortions.