What is "optimizations"

Usage examples of "optimizations".

Pure topological theory might prove the existence of a decomposition series, but actually forcing a ship through that series required massive linear programming optimizations, all performed in realtime with no second chances for mistakes.

Genius and freedom and knowledge of the past have kept them safe, but finally the optimizations have taken them to the point of fragility.

Windows 2000 took more than 20 seconds longer to boot, because it's much larger than Windows Me, and because XP uses new optimizations for reading and loading OS code into memory.

And there are many tweaks and optimizations that I could probably make in my system that I have never gotten around to attempting, partly because I get tired of being a Morlock some days, and partly because I am afraid of fouling up a system that generally works well.

Among these are beings whom nobody from a previous century would recognize as human – human/corporation half-breeds, zombie clades dehumanized by their own optimizations, angels and devils of software, slyly self-aware financial instruments.