In Avi's Crispin and the Cross of Lead, a young boy must flee the only village he's ever known to save his life. After Crispin's mother dies, the corrupt Steward of the Manor, John Aycliffe, accuses Crispin of thievery and declares that anyone may kill him on sight. Crispin runs away and on his journey meets a man called Bear. Bear takes Crispin under his wing and teaches him some of the arts of being a bard, and together they travel to the town of Great Wexley. Even though there is a festival going on, Crispin and Bear take great efforts not to be noticed. When Crispin visits the cathedral, he sees none other than John Aycliffe praying there. He runs away and has to fight off several of Aycliffe's men before he is able to return safely to the tavern.
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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