[wp-hackers] Inline documentation

Rich Bowen rbowen at rcbowen.com
Thu Feb 16 21:03:43 GMT 2006


Vogel, Andrew (vogelap) wrote:
> How much overhead does inline comments add to the code? I cannot imagine
> it to be very much. I agree with Scott that the teaching aspects are
> important.

Benchmarks indicate that even large amounts of inline documentation
(like one line of comments per line of code, for example) have
negligible effect on execution time.

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Rich Bowen
rbowen at rcbowen.com


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