Optimization
Noun · Development
Definitions
The process of modifying code, queries, algorithms, or system configuration to improve a measurable performance metric — such as execution time, memory usage, binary size, or throughput — often guided by profiling data. Compiler optimizations (inlining, dead-code elimination, loop unrolling) are applied automatically at build time.
In plain English: Making software faster or more efficient by finding and fixing the parts that waste time or resources.
Example: "Don't optimize until you profile — we spent a week optimizing the wrong function before we realized the bottleneck was a missing database index."