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Performant[1] (comparative more performant, superlative most performant): (jargon, chiefly computing) Capable of or characterized by an adequate or excellent level of performance or efficiency.

  "Ours is a performant network monitoring and systems monitoring tool."

  "This software is ten percent more performant than its predecessor."
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[1]: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/performant



Yes, but somebody adding it to wiktionary doesn't make it a word. It just seems lazy to make up new words rather that taking the trouble to use an existing one.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=performant&ye...

I wonder if the early appearance is OCR error?


It being used makes it a word. Words get added to dictionaries often. Where do you think they came from to begin with?


Actually my point in posting the qoute and the link was to show that it's jargon.

Anyhow do you have an issue with scalable[1] too?

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[1]: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Scalable&year...




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