On Aug 29, 2014, at 7:33 PM, John Rose <john.r.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > . . . > Changing source code on based on the difference between 0 and -1 is almost as > pointless as removing whitespace and comments . . .
Well said, John! But I cannot resist recalling that one of the earliest pieces of software in the implementation of EMACS (back when the implementation language was TECO, a text-editing language) was a routine that, when it loaded TECO macros from a file, would carefully remove comments and excess whitespace in order to improve the execution speed of the macros (and therefore the response time of the EMACS keystrokes)! We have come a long, long way in 38 years. --Guy
