It doesn't. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of software engineering and is flawed in almost every way. To the point of it being an armchair statement.

I was talking about a specific edge case there. The way the scripting system for ARMA is handled, a longer script will take more time to parse and run than a script that can do the same thing in fewer lines, except in some rare instances where you actually could optimize how it's handling a certain function.