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(programming) The act of wasting resources on optimising source code that does not represent a significant bottleneck.

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premature optimization

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(programming) The act of wasting resources on optimising source code that does not represent a significant bottleneck.

Japanese Meaning

プログラミングにおいて、重大なボトルネックが存在しない部分に対し、早すぎる段階でソースコードの最適化を行い、結果的に無駄なリソースを消費する行為

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We wasted hours on premature optimization instead of profiling the application to find the real bottlenecks.

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実際のボトルネックを見つけるためにアプリケーションのプロファイリングをする代わりに、コードの時期尚早な最適化に何時間も費やしてしまった。

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(programming) The act of wasting resources on optimising source code that does not represent a significant bottleneck.

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 (or at least most of it) in programming.

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