Over the past years(?) there's been a debate about the status of the tag:optimization, tag:performance, memory-optimization and code-size-optimization:
- January 2012: http://meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/439/tag-synonyms-optimize-optimization?s=1|1.4859https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/439/tag-synonyms-optimize-optimization?s=1|1.4859
- Oct 2013: http://meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/878/tags-for-optimization-performance-speed?s=2|1.1746https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/878/tags-for-optimization-performance-speed?s=2|1.1746
- Oct 2014: http://meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/3725/should-we-just-put-an-end-to-optimization?s=5|1.9039https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3725/should-we-just-put-an-end-to-optimization?s=5|1.9039
On March 26 2015 March 26 2015 the tag:optimization tag was linked as a synonym pointing to tag:performance.
Since then, no new questions have been created with the tag:optimization, and any attempts to add tag:optimization have been auto-converted to tag:performance.
The "in limbo" state of the questions are currently:
- Both: 177
Note that there are currently > 3000 tag:Optimization questions reported because of the synonym, even though there are only 1253 tagged that way.
tag:optimization can no longer "grow", it can only shrink as things are edited.
There have been no issues reported since the synonym was introduced in March.
Has the time come to finally merge tag:optimization in to tag:performance so that:
- there are no double-tagged questions with both tags?
- there is a clean history?
###Optimize -> Performance time?
