How much do comments slow down the compiler?

Is it really worth it to force the compiler to have to sort out which statements to skip and which to attend to? Seems like a non-zero slice of time is being wasted by the lexer just to make shit easier for the programmer.

>>13

C standard

Nobody cares about your primitive caveman bytefuck languages where you can't even use things before defining them.

Besides, you haven't even read what is linked in >>8, otherwise you would have concurred that I'm right:

Tokenization

In the third phase of translation, the preprocessor tokenizes the source file into preprocessing tokens and sequences of whitespace characters. Comments are placed by a single whitespace character

Tokenization is another word for lexing (do I need to explain that more or can you follow at least this far?). Thus, comments are stripped out only at the lexing phase. Which is a part of compilation (because without lexing there would be no parsing and thus the compiler wouldn't "see" any actual code - do I need to explain that more, or is your pea-brain powerful enough to understand English?