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Quoting John Bartol <johnbartol -at- jaggedpeak -dot- ca>:
> Actually, in a compiled system, the comments are ignored in the
> compilation of the executable code. That is, a "hello world" program
> consisting of 5 lines of code
> will result, when compiled, in an executable binary that is *the same
> size* as
> the same program with 2000 lines of comments. So... no effect on size at
> all.
Of course. I wasn't thinking straight. I'll blame the fact that all I do
regularly is shell scripts. Yeah, that will work as an excuse. ;-)
There is still the question of the size of the source files, but that should be
a non-issue, as I said.
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