from what little i know of parsers, most lexical analyzers (the part
that recognizes tokens and such) are designed to ignore comments (just
speculation). the whole file is read into the OS buffer cache, comments and
all, when the perl interpreter/compiler starts to read the file. but that
should be the case even when you are editing the file. so i wouldnt worry
unduly about comments having an effect on performance.
/kk
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:27:56AM +0200, Stephan Bulheller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> someone told me that comments are loaded in the memory while the script is
> running.
>
> Is this true?
>
> --Stephan
