Reading some codebase is nobody's first choice. It is something you reach for in a pinch. So readable well commented code is not optimisation for common case.

Reading some codebase is nobody's first choice. It is something you reach for in a pinch. So readable well commented code is not optimisation for common case. It is for an edge case. God help you if you are investigating something bad, open code and see fast inverse square root - style code.