"Roland Illig" wrote: > Module Name: src > Committed By: rillig > Date: Sun Aug 2 09:43:22 UTC 2020 > > Modified Files: > > src/usr.bin/make: var.c > > Log Message: > > make(1): use shorter local variable names > > The c in cp was redundant since the context makes it obvious that this > is a character pointer. In a tight loop where lots of characters are > compared, every letter counts.
I don't understand the intent of this commit. Are you saying the length of a C variable name has some sort of impact on code execution speed? Cheers, Simon.