Oberon, king of the fairies, who at the beginning of the play was estranged from Titania, queen of the fairies, was described as jealous by Puck. Puck met with a fairy in a section of the forest and got into an argument about Oberon and Titania. Puck informed the fairy that Oberon intended to have a party in that location and warned that it would be detrimental if he met Titania because she was also holding a party in the same area. Oberon and Titania were estranged because of a boy Oberon wanted who was in Titania’s custody. The two met, and in their opening conversation, Titania referred to Oberon as jealous. Puck referred to Oberon as “my lord,” meaning that he was a leader. Puck referred to Oberon as captain when he arrived with Helena. He also called Oberon king of shadows.
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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