Re: Length of variable names affect performance?

spinoza1111 wrote:

> > All other languages parse with an industrial-strength parser that
> > uses algorithms we cannot comprehend. They replace all
> > identifiers with pointers
>
> "We cannot comprehend?"
>
> Actually, this false humility is part of the problem. You don't have
to
> comprehend the algorithms to write a program but this doesn't mean
you
> cannot comprehend them.

"We cannot comprehend" is short for "whose performance profile we can't
guess".

Naturally, if we could read the source of the compiler (and all its
juicy comments), we would have a chance to comprehend them...

> I trust you're kidding.

On USENET? Perish the thought!

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