I don't get this C/C++ Joke

Question

After reading this article on thedailywtf.com, I\'m not sure that I really got the joke.

It says there that some guy changed the code from

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Answer 1

Depending on the compiler and compiler options, initialization like this

char data_string[15] = "data data data";

results in a lot of move instructions to copy the literal data to stack.

Calling strcpy requires less instructions.

Doing this kind of thing all over a large codebase can increase the binary size significantly.

And of course, he was not spending his time on adding any value.