premature optimization

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of wasting resources on optimising source code that does not represent a significant bottleneck. countable,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

premature optimizations plural premature optimisation alternative

词源

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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