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[tedd]

At 8:09 PM -0400 7/3/07, David Krings wrote:
>BUT...back to the original question, does the length of a variable 
>name have any impact on performance or such?

Does the length of variable names have any impact on performance?

I doubt it, but it should be easy enough to prove. Just write two 
routines -- one with short names and one with long and have them run 
a set time (perhaps years) and compare their performance.

Does the length of variable names have any impact on such?

If you're the programmer reviewing/maintaining someone else's code, I 
would say "Yes, it does." Both too cryptic and too long makes code 
difficult to read.

Cheers,

tedd
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