RE: [PEAR-DEV] Pear Installer to remove comments

> From: Stan Lemon [mailto:insyder@myrealbox.com] > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 8:07 PM > I agree with Arnaud on this one. I'm not convinced that the times are > significant enough. PEAR has a hard enough time getting docs made and > getting *good* inline doc block comments, the idea of removing comments > seems like a step in the wrong direction, regardless of the purpose. > > - Stan > > Arnaud Limbourg wrote: > >>Is it possible to have per installer to strip comments on install of > >>package (with some optional switch of cource) > >> > >>it sounds like a relativle easy way of redusing some cpu cycles, a log > >>of pear package have 30% > of comments in them. Would'n it make them > >>faster to remove the comments. On a production system source is rarly > >>read. It should be trivial to be done with the tokenizer extension. > >> > >>Just a random thought I had over the week end. > > > > > > Ilia had done some benchmarking on this, you would need a very large > file with a very large amount of comments to begin to notice anything. > > > > Plus i often browse the installed code to see what it does, without > comments it would be much harder ;) Finally the approriate solution to this "problem" is to use a bytecode cache. Regards, Lukas