After World War II, the communists, led by Mao Zedong had many advantages. They controlled the important areas of eastern China and around a quarter of the land. A very important strategy that Mao Zedong utilized was to win favor with the peasants, which were an overwhelming majority of the population. He promised that he would create reforms that would improve their lives. For this reason, Mao was extremely popular. Unemployment and other economic difficulties in Nationalist-controlled areas were making their leader, Chiang Kai-Shek equally unpopular. So with popular sentiment on the side of Mao, he planned and coordinated a very cautious strategy to win the war. He would concede land to the nationalists in instances where his forces were outnumbered. In this way, he was able to preserve the number of troops fighting for him rather than wasting them in battles they could not win. Support, in the form of weapons from the Soviet Union, was also an important advantage that Mao had. Much of the financial support that Chiang Kai-Shek and the Nationalists received was wasted through corruption and mismanagement.
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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