misoptimize means to optimize badly, emphasizing the wrong criteria or failing to take advantage of potential improvements.
Etymology
From mis- + optimize.
verb
- To optimize badly, emphasizing the wrong criteria or failing to take advantage of potential improvements.“Is anything like this going on inside the program in question as ported to Pleiades? Unless a complete static analysis of the generated object code is done, or unless every input data set is run through a correct version of the program and the output compared with that of the misoptimized version, nobody knows.”