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What do you think the difference is between "performant" and "fast"?

• pklausler 10y ago
  "fast" is in my dictionary.
  • auggierose 10y ago
    Thanks for pointing out that "performant" is not in any english dictionary! (http://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway/performant-isn-t-a-word http://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway/performant-isn-t-a-word) Didn't know that. Besides that, your "fast" code will not be as fast as it can be if you are only relying on purely functional code, at least on current architectures.
    • bsummer4 10y ago
      Do be fair, he said "impure language" and not "impure code". "Looks like we need to let the scholars know - there are 18,300 uses of the non-word "performant" in scholarly papers" <- If that's not sarcasm, something is wrong. Performant is a word!
      • auggierose 10y ago
        It is a word, just not an English one it seems! It certainly is a German word. That might explain a lot ;-) It might also explain the many occurrences, as there are many Germans writing papers in English.