After spending about a year with her, the goddess Circe tells Odysseus to seek out the blind prophet, Teiresias, in the Underworld in order to procure instructions for how to make it safely home to Ithaca. Odysseus carefully follows her directions, sacrificing animals and allowing their blood to draw the spirits toward him, allowing none of them to approach the blood until he could speak with the prophet. When he does, Teiresias tells him that, when Odysseus arrives at Thrinacia and finds the sacred herds of Helios, he must "leave these unharmed and heed [his] homeward way." If they follow this advice, there is yet a chance that they will make it back to Ithaca, though the way will be very hard (because Poseidon is holding a grudge due to the fact that Odysseus and his men blinded Poseidon's son, Polyphemus, the Cyclops). If, however, either Odysseus or his men fail to take this warning to heart and harm even one member of the herd, all of the crew will perish. Circe repeats this warning when Odysseus returns to her home after he leaves the Underworld.
As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...
Comments
Post a Comment