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18 lines
729 B
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<!DOCTYPE qhelp PUBLIC
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"-//Semmle//qhelp//EN"
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"qhelp.dtd">
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<qhelp>
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<fragment>
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<p>
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Redundant, or "dead", code imposes a burden on those reading or maintaining the software project.
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It can make it harder to understand the structure of the code, as well as increasing the complexity
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of adding new features or fixing bugs. It can also affect compilation and build times for the
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project, as dead code will still be compiled and built even if it is never used. In some cases it
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may also affect runtime performance - for example, fields that are written to but never read from,
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where the value written to the field is expensive to compute. Removing dead code should not
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change the meaning of the program.
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</p>
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</fragment>
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</qhelp>
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