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Sloptimize

hide-first-let­ter slop·ti·mize | slop·ti·mized | slop·ti·miz·ing verb To make a pro­gram run faster by decreas­ing the accu­ra­cy of its out­put. Examples of slop­ti­mize We slop­ti­mized the cal­cu­la­tions to use 32-bit floats instead of 64-bit dou­bles, and got a 20% speedup.

April 21, 2011 – 5:16 pm | By Evan | Posted in Programming, Words That Aren't but Should Be | Tagged , | Comments (2)