Re:“Performant” is not a word
by hyperbovine on Monday May 20, 2013 @09:05PM
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I dislike the word simply because it's vague. If it's fast, just say so. I have yet to see an instance where this word captured some subtle shade of meaning that some other word could not.
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I have understood “performant” to suggest a soundness of design that causes something to be “fast”. In the context of algorithms, certainly the distinction is blurred, but in other, higher-level contexts, it can be meaningful.
The suffix -ant can turn verbs into nouns or adjectives, which means something can be a peformant performant.
I suggest using the -y suffix for the adjective form and -ant for the noun form. Then you can say the performant is performy, or performier than before.