<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Sebastian Kügler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebas@kde.org" target="_blank">sebas@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Monday 04 April 2016 17:29:58 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:<br>
> On Montag, 4. April 2016 15:04:30 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote:<br>
> > I'm not convinced performant is a word although it seems to be used<br>
> > for computer jargon<br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38945/what-is-wrong-with-the-wo" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38945/what-is-wrong-with-the-wo</a><br>
</span>> > rd -performant<br>
<span>><br>
> It is clearly jargon. As Jens already said, the question is: Can we afford<br>
> the jargon or not? We think we can, but there are certainly also good<br>
> arguments against it.<br>
<br>
</span>I don't like it. How about "nimble", it expresses power and speed in a<br>
positively sounding adjective.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What I like about "performant" is it doesn't just mean fast *. <br></div><div>It covers a broader range of metrics, and the text beneath it in Detail 3 goes on about code quality and usability which "nimble" doesn't really cover in itself.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>David<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>*or at least it would if it was a proper word<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span><font color="#888888">--<br>
sebas<br>
<br>
Sebastian Kügler • <a href="http://vizZzion.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://vizZzion.org</a> • <a href="http://www.kde.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.kde.org</a><br>
</font></span><div><div>_______________________________________________<br>
Plasma-devel mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Plasma-devel@kde.org" target="_blank">Plasma-devel@kde.org</a><br>
<a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>