Performant to me implies performing better against the relevant metrics. So faster, maybe, but perhaps smaller and more energy efficient too. If the context of the metrics is already understood then it seems quite a cromulent word.
I had just explained the etomology of cromulent to my wife a few days ago - awesome to have an example of its usage in the wild. My hat is off to you, sir.
What's cromulent mean? I looked it up at dictionary.com and couldn't find anything. Or are you making up more words to point out the irony? :)
It's from the Simpsons and that is pretty much exactly the context that it first appeared in! Here's an excerpt from the "Made-up words" article on the simpsons.wikia.com:
When schoolteacher Edna Krabappel hears the Springfield town motto "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man," she comments she'd never heard of the word embiggens before moving to Springfield. Miss Hoover replies, "I don't know why; it's a perfectly cromulent word".
Re:DNS over HTTPS
by zimpenfish on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @08:09AM
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https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/cromulent
"Acceptable or adequate"
I wonder if you can use "cromulent" to guess the age of a person. Older people would not have watched the Simpsons in the early 90s. Younger people very likely missed this obscure episode. I would guess an age of the user to be 30-35.
Re:DNS over HTTPS
by half-kh-hacker on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @12:00PM
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I may be an outlier but as a seventeen year old, I'd already heard of 'cromulent' (from the Simpsons, but through Reddit).
The episode was first aired in Feb ‘96, at which point I was 20, and in college. At this point the show was still quite popular with my friend group. I am currently 42. You might need to increase your upper bound on the age range.
You're not far out, but I must have missed that episode originally and only watched it in the last few years. I possibly also learnt it from Reddit first.
My editor, in his mid 60s, uses cromulent quite regularly.
Others have filled in the detail of origin and meaning. Yes, my intent was to use another neologism to add an ironic tone. Language is always changing.
CW: ...and this way it'll be more performant too.
Me: Performant? As in faster?
CW: Yes.
Me (to self): Then why didn't you just say it'll be faster?
IMHO it obfuscates meaning and should be avoided; the surrounding discussion/vagueness about what it means (I don't think it means efficient, but only faster --- as in, a high-performance car) shows that too.