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by txutxu 4579 days ago
"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.