• For continuous problems, the naïve-replace or floor padding strategy is effective in avoiding constraint violations (lowest % infeasible measurements in 3/4 cases studied). However, it is perhaps too biased toward this aspect, and optimization performance is sacrificed. This is especially recognizable when the optimum of the problem is close to an infeasible region, where this strategy tends to induce a (often large) penalty on α(x) that spills over into the optimal region.