Performant

What is Performant?


1.

Something that has adequate or better performance. Combination of "Performance" and "Conformant". Commonly used by Microsofties but not a real word.

"It's super super important to get that code performant before we ship!"

See nerdy, software, microsoft, washington, dorky

2.

Describes whether or not a system will perform under load.

Usage first appeared in magazine publishing industry.

Possibly made up by one of my system architects.

That VAX system was really slow until we overclocked it to 20MHz - then it became highly performant

See efficient, fast, strain, stress, system


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