On 12/16/13 10:49 AM, rusi wrote:
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)
In English, it's spelled consistent:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consistant
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