This issue comes up in the 19th chapter, titled “In Which I Have a Good Look at Winter and Find Spring in the Snow.” Sam Gribley has been living on his own in the Catskill mountains since May. Near the end of the following January, Sam feels tired. He decides that his current diet must be missing some essential vitamin, but he doesn’t know which one it is. He gets a nosebleed, too. When his falcon Frightful catches a rabbit for him, Sam finds himself craving the liver. He learns later that liver is rich in vitamin C. As long as he eats liver on a regular basis in these winter months, he has no more problems. But he can’t wait for spring to come, when fresh greens will be available again.
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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