No, we can't.

that's my English... I meant "discuss we or not, no consensus will be reached"

As for optimizations by removing code - I do not agree.

Usually naive shorter implementation will be slower than "advanced" algorithm, like replacing bubble-sort with balanced tree will gain performance with a pay of complex algortihm.

And here is typical example of other type of optimization by making code larger.

in the code excerpt below: 

for (;length;) {
  read (FIN,$_,1_000_000);
m0:
  $_ .= <FIN> unless eof FIN;
  if (/\\[\r\n]$/) {
    goto m0 unless eof FIN;
  }
  s#(/Title\s*)\(((?:[^\\\)]|\\.)+)\)#$1.repair_title($2)#eg;
  print FOUT;
  $len += length;
  print STDERR "$len\n";
}

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I was forced to replace processing by chunks of 1_000_000 because, when it was simple s/.../.../g, then quite often 1Gb of memory was eaten and still not reached result.

In reply to Re^6: evil code of the day: global stricture control by vkon
in thread evil code of the day: global stricture control by ysth

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