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I don't understand this sentence:

> Enforcing a brace placement style and other conventions means the compiler can be super fast.

Surely the lexical-analysis phase is not the bottleneck in compilation? (The context strongly suggests that 'other conventions' means 'other lexical conventions'.)




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