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performant
May. 29th, 2025 07:25 amperformant (per-FOR-muhnt) - (jargon) adj., performing at an acceptable or excellent level.
So far this recent coinage is pretty much only used in computing contexts, and I can only hope it at least stays there until it withers away. Such passages as "... eliminating such failures helps ensure that software is more predictable, maintainable, performant, and trustworthy" (to quote a Microsoft KB article) do not strike me as performant prose. Derivative of perform, obvs, with the agentive adjectival suffix -ant (as in informant).
---L.
So far this recent coinage is pretty much only used in computing contexts, and I can only hope it at least stays there until it withers away. Such passages as "... eliminating such failures helps ensure that software is more predictable, maintainable, performant, and trustworthy" (to quote a Microsoft KB article) do not strike me as performant prose. Derivative of perform, obvs, with the agentive adjectival suffix -ant (as in informant).
---L.
