Boxer is a massive horse who is the strongest, most dependable animal on the farm. After hearing about Animalism, Boxer becomes its biggest supporter and plays an important role in the Battle of Cowshed. Boxer's tireless work ethic is a major reason for the farm's success. He even wakes up early to begin working and selflessly puts the farm's best interests before his well-being. Despite his strength and usefulness, Boxer is extremely unintelligent. He cannot remember the alphabet after the letter D, and is naive to Napoleon's tyranny. His answer to every problem is "I will work harder," and Boxer believes everything that Napoleon says. The pigs take advantage of Boxer's loyalty and strength by overworking him and cutting his food rations. They view Boxer as simply a tool who they send away to die when he is no longer useful. Boxer's character is symbolic of the male working class and Russian peasants.
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 ...
Comments
Post a Comment