premature optimizationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• premature optimisation

語源

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

名詞

premature optimization (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 premature optimizations)

1. (programming) The act of wasting resources on optimising source code that does not represent a significant bottleneck.
   • 1973, Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming

     The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (または at least most of it) in programming.

   • 2016, Amitt Mahajan, Why you’re mispricing your VR seed round, VentureBeat

     Similar to engineering, premature optimization can cause you to focus on items that don’t materially affect your outcome and can divert your attention away from those that do.

上位語

• optimization