I remember seeing a comic once about two devs, one complaining that this senior always puts lots of nitpicky comments on her code review, and the other replies that he always makes one obvious mistake, so the senior can point it out and feel like they’ve done their job

Do your thing internet, cos I cannot find it

Any particular goals with Ada? Had an academic curiosity for a few years but never used it in earnest.

Perhaps the numbers are not plainly available as the previous commenter stated, and they wanted to call out the direct contribution of the 78 unique commit authors, without disregarding many other indirect contributions from commenters, reviewers, testers etc.

Generally the performance difference will be minimal, but the benefit to others (and yourself in the future) in keeping the code’s functionality clear and readable is much more important, especially in a professional setting.

A lot of programmers do have this ‘code golf’ mentality that less lines == efficient, but unless its a bottleneck and you’ve benchmarked it to be significantly faster, code readability should always trump performance.