Act 1, Scene 2 of The Tempest opens with Miranda commenting on the storm and the shipwreck she has just witnessed. She is greatly distressed by having seen the ship sink. Her compassion is fully activated. She suffers with the people she saw suffering. She believes the ship was a "brave vessel" that certainly had "some noble creature in her," someone she believes must now have perished along with all the passengers and crew. Hearing their fearful cries, she felt their agony in the depths of her heart. She wishes she had the power of a supernatural being. If she had, she would have made the earth swallow up the entire ocean before she would have allowed the ship to be swallowed by the sea. Her father, Prospero, tells her to take heart because there's been no harm done. She has suspected her father may by his magic have influenced the storm, and she wants him to calm the sea. Prospero takes this opportunity to tell Miranda the tale of who he is and how they came to be on the island.
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 ...
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