At the Plaza Hotel, Gatsby and Tom Buchanan face off over Daisy. Tom does everything he can to press his class advantage over his rival. First, Tom, a Yale graduate, taunts Gatsby over allegedly being an "Oxford man," which Tom does not believe for a minute. When Gatsby explains that he was only there for five months as part of a World War I armistice opportunity that allowed some officers to study at Oxford, Nick's faith in Gatsby is restored. But upper crust Tom keeps on relentlessly pushing the "class warfare" theme, saying that if Gatsby can make love to Daisy, the next thing will be "intermarriage between black and white." Finally, he says that someone like Gatsby should not be allowed "within a mile" of Daisy unless he is delivering groceries to the back door like a servant. We've known from the beginning that Tom is a snob, but here he openly uses his conviction that Gatsby is lower class to try to separate Daisy and Gatsby.
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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