On Sunday, December 15, 2013 9:11:15 AM UTC+5:30, Tim Roberts wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >>Well "performant" is performant enough for the purposes of communicating > >>on the python list I think :D > > Most probably could figure it out as being stylistically similar to > >conformant => something that conforms > >performant => something that performs
> Yes, I suspect it comes from people expecting too much consistency. If > something that has "conformance" is "conformant", then something that has > good "performance" must be "performant". And things that have consistency are of course... consistant (not consistent) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list