[whatwg] 2.2 Performant

Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at ibiblio.org
Thu Aug 6 13:47:56 PDT 2009


"In particular, the algorithms defined in this specification are
intended to be easy to follow, and not intended to be performant."

Yech. The recently coined word "performant" just grates on my ears;
and I'm not the only one as a Google search will show:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=performant

Perhaps we could replace it with "efficient" or some other word or phrase?

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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo at ibiblio.org



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