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Could you expand on the distinction between "efficient" and "performant"? Sounds interesting.

• selcuka 6y ago
  Not the OP but I believe efficient means the least number of bytes in this context.
• CyberRabbi 6y ago
  “Performant” is meaningless marketing speak to just mean “it run fast.” Efficient has a more precise meaning
  • sthnblllII 6y ago
    When marketing people make up silly words for things that already have a word just make up even more ridiculous words to make fun of them.
• VLM 6y ago
  If as a human C compiler you unrolled a loop, that would be performant, but because you're space limited you do not unroll the loop and that is (memory) efficient. Lets say you had a 6x8 character cell or a really small sprite for graphics, unrolling the loop would make a copy about 2x faster but would cost about 40 bytes or so.