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What does the word performant mean exactly?
by 0-_-0 6y ago
What does the word performant mean exactly?
- blacksmith_tb 6y ago"Fast on your manager's screen" is the industry benchmark.
- plorkyeran 6y agoIt usually means something like "fast enough" or "faster than expected". In this title "fast and performant" is using redundancy for emphasis.
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- theandrewbailey 6y agoI think it means fast, but it's used when someone wants a buzzword. I wish people would use fast instead. I feel the same way with learnings (use lessons).
- sltkr 6y agoThe title is “Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant” which suggests performant is something different from (just) fast.
- quadrangle 6y agoJust a guess: maybe it means fast-despite-fancy-junk. So, it contrasts with just fast achieved by keeping the content simpler and less fancy?
- libria 6y agoBased on their examples: * Consistent UI performance under load. Not the same as "goes faster", just "doesn't slow down". * More efficient resource/CPU utilization. * Smarter loading of resources (kind of a sub point of 1) I think they're trying to say it's "consistently not-slow and efficient with resources". Does "fast" express that well? To grandma, sure. To a technical audience, no. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/performant https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/perfo...
- edflsafoiewq 6y ago"Performs well" presumably. Like "observant" means "observes well". This is more general than "fast" since there are other metrics by which performance can be measured.