Does "finding the source of a bug" and "figuring out the correct thing to write to fix a bug" fall under reading the code or under writing the code?
I feel like the answer to those questions determines which is faster. One may say that you only compare (lines_read / time_reading) and (lines_written / time_writing) to find an answer, but if we remove all "time spent thinking" from both then it kind of feels like a meaningless comparison.
I’m spend much more time thinking about what I will write than I do thinking about what I’m reading. In any case my reading is far faster than my writing.
I feel like the answer to those questions determines which is faster. One may say that you only compare (lines_read / time_reading) and (lines_written / time_writing) to find an answer, but if we remove all "time spent thinking" from both then it kind of feels like a meaningless comparison.