Q:

Optimisation tag

I apparently overoptimised:
http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5139387#5139387
Besides the breakdown, the discussion had some suggestions. So, what do you think about:

optimisation
its relation to performance-tuning
prevention of similar future mistakes

A:

The new use of optimisation appears to focus on questions asking for better ways to do things rather than "optimization" in the sense of finding the best value of an objective function subject to constraints.  (Applications of the latter in GIS include route finding and site selection.)  I get the idea but question the word used to describe it, due to this ambiguity.
I also wonder what the perceived value would be in applying a tag to all such questions (of which I guess there are a great many).  I'm not suggesting it's without value; I'm just asking what the intended value is.

