[mseepgood]

> But the first statement, literally, does not make sense on its own.

Why? There are other resources than CPU time, e.g. memory.

[txutxu]

"Computer performance is characterized by the amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system compared to the time and resources used." --wikipedia

Is there a different definition I'm missing? I think, a car can be "fast" and take too much fuel, but (in my book) a programming language cannot be "great for performance" while being bad at resource usage.