Toward the end of the story, after the narrator has killed, dismembered, and hidden the body of the old man in order to rid himself of the "vulture eye," he hears a knocking at his door. Though it is only four o'clock in the morning, the narrator says, "I went down to open it with a light heart, -- for what had I now to fear?" The implication, then, is that the narrator has a light heart because he has no fear of being caught. He has already taken "wise precautions" to be sure that the body will not be discovered and that no blood was left to stain the floors (he'd thought to use a tub to catch it all when he took the old man's body apart). He feels that he has no reason to fear anyone who might be knocking at his door at this hour because he has been so careful, so meticulous, and that he has committed the perfect crime.
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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