> a theoretical maximum output of SLoC. If that's you're metric, I don't think it's a good one.

That's certainly not my metric and I definitely don't believe it's a good one.

My metric is readability. The ability to return to a piece of code 6 months down the road and be able to understand precisely what's happening.

> I have lots of challenges and bottlenecks. The time to type comments isn't one of them.

Oh, I know. It's very easy to add a comment that you think will help clarify things down the road, but instead, ends up being more cryptic than your code.

By definition, a comment is something short and half-thought out. It's a comment.

As I said in the post up above, stay away from comments. If you have to annotate, write documentation instead.