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The cute flower girl from she-ra who doesn't like it when you throw tanks at your friends.
"We do not throw tanks at out friends!" - perfuma
perfuma by ~HeyAdora~ December 12, 2020

performant 

A concise expression meaning "of adequate performance" without stretching to "high-performance" (especially since High Performance Computing has a specific meaning of its own). Unfortunately, in the modern language of hyperbole, terms like "adequate" and "acceptable" have negative connotations along the lines of "not really good enough but better than nothing". So, we, as an industry, have invented a jargon word "performant" to express the idea that a thing has a level of performance sufficient that you don't need to worry about it and can look for optimisations elsewhere in your system.
The JVM is performant.
performant by snookumz April 6, 2011

Performant 

Something that has adequate or better performance. Combination of "Performance" and "Conformant". Commonly used by Microsofties but not a real word.
"It's super super important to get that code performant before we ship!"

perfumista

A true perfumista is is not daunted by expense or exclusivity; the most important thing is to obtain a sample of the most interesting new niche fragrances for direct experience.
perfumista by Luccia March 12, 2007

permantized 

Due to the ongoing water shortage the water restrictions will be permantized.

performant 

Describes whether or not a system will perform under load.
Usage first appeared in magazine publishing industry.
Possibly made up by one of my system architects.
That VAX system was really slow until we overclocked it to 20MHz - then it became highly performant
performant by Kerry P July 24, 2008