superoptimization
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A form of peephole optimization that typically uses an exhaustive brute-force search across all possible sequences of machine instructions.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "As such, we implemented a state-of-the-art stochastic superoptimization approach, adapted it to the sort setting and used it as the learning algorithm in AlphaDev."
Etymology
Coined by American computer scientist and programmer Alexia Massalin in 1987, from super- + optimization.