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From: matsw@mail.com (Mats Weber)
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Subject: Re: Expected bytes per sloc (semicolons) performance
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:30:34 +0200
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>Rules about n bytes per sloc are just too processor, compiler, and
>coding style dependent to be useful.

I would put a big emphasis on coding style here. If you use a lot of
generics, the code will be generated once for each instance in most
implementations.