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