In Chapter 24, the aides, assisted by two black boys, beat by a margin of twenty points the team that McMurphy and the other men get together on the ward. McMurphy's team, composed of Harding, Billy Bibbit, Scanlon, Fredrickson, Martini, and McMurphy, is slow and short. Chief says, "But something happened that let most of us come away feeling there’d been a kind of victory, anyhow." When a black guy named Washington is trying to get the ball, someone hits him with an elbow. Blood pours out of his nose and chest like "paint splashed on a blackboard," and his teammates have to hold him back as he yells at McMurphy. McMurphy's response is just to sit on the ball and pay no attention to Washington. Though the team made up of men on the ward loses, they have a kind of psychological victory by even having a team and by watching Washington bleed so profusely.
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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