Slow connection

Slow connection  

reduces eye space at the left for the central white group, while making territory. can easily save her group by capturing 2 stones with . However this is a slow connection because Black can take the next big point at and turn the upper left into a big territory. White's development is not very efficient.

Instead,

Sharp  

White's central group is stronger than it may look. It not only has a but also b and c. White has time to play in the upper left.