In Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, Sal and her grandparents are traveling across the country to Idaho in order to visit her mother. They make several sightseeing stops on the way, including one in the Wisconsin Dells. Sal and her grandparents, who she calls Gram and Gramps, decide to visit the Dells in order to watch the Native American dancers. At one point, after sightseeing with her Gram, Sal falls asleep while lying in the grass. When she wakes up, she realizes her grandparents left her, and she doesn't know where they went. She anxiously walks around the Dells trying to find them, and eventually finds her Gram in the middle of a Native American dance circle, dancing and shouting "Huzza, huzza!"
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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