Optimization is a very broad term referring to optimizing (either minimizing or maximizing) some aspect of a computer system's hardware usage (like the hard disk space used by the system, the CPU and RAM used while running, etc.) or performance or resource usage (like electrical requirements).
Optimization can be used to refer to (note: this list is incomplete):
- Maximizing battery or hardware life. Examples of questions where this tag is used for this purpose, include:
- Minimizing the CPU or RAM requirements for an application or other programs. An example includes:
- Minimizing boot time. For example:
- Minimizing the amount of hard disk drive (HDD) space taken up by files.
- Minimizing electricity requirements.
