suboptimal

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Here's the big performance hit: Suppose the data structure that is being used is suboptimal, and suppose you recognize that it needs to be changed.

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  1. In biology, concerning or pertaining to a suboptimum. This reaction is repeated as long as an effective supraoptimal or suboptimal temperature continues. The result is to prevent the organisms from entering regions of marked supraoptimal or suboptimal temperature, and to cause them to form collections in regions of optimal temperature. Science, Dec. 2, 1904, p. 751.

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  • Please note that as we mentioned on Monday, there's a known issue with merging contacts that affects address auto-complete, making merged addresses sometimes come up in a suboptimal order (e.g. auto-complete may bring up your friend's work address first even though you usually email their Gmail address).
  • You probably noticed by now that I am coining my own phrases for these things which is admittedly suboptimal, but here I am meaning searches that can return multiple types. —  Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community
  • Futhermore, in these trials the quality of evidence supporting ovulation is suboptimal, and few studies have been placebo-controlled. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • I agree that HCAN is a policy compromise that is suboptimal, but it does have a certain political logic behind it. —  In These Times
  • However, application inefficiencies, such as suboptimal algorithms and inefficient usage of shared resources causing contentions, are originators of higher CPU usage and, therefore, energy consumption. —  MSDN Blogs
 

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