XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: mechanicjay@sol.smbfc.net   
      
   On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:38:45 -0500 (EST), Scott Dorsey    
   wrote:   
   >In article , Adam Sampson   wrote:   
   >>I always push back against it when I see my students using it -- not   
   >>because the word doesn't exist, but because it's meaningless unless you   
   >>say what types of performance you care about. Does a "performant"   
   >>network application mean high bandwidth, low latency, low CPU load, low   
   >>energy usage, or what?   
   >   
   >If your computer is not performant, maybe you need a CPU with higher   
   >mippage, or maybe you need more core, or maybe you need more baud.   
   >--scott   
   >--   
   >"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   I just came across the word in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, VOL.   
   SE-11, No. 1, January 1985 in an article entitled, The Eden System: A Technical   
   Review.   
      
   "Our objective for Eden 1.0 was a prototype that we could construct fairly   
   quickly and that would be sufficiently performant to allow us to conduct   
   experiments using it."   
      
   Written in 1985, by a bunch of Americans. So, there's another datapoint for   
   everyone.   
      
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