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diff --git a/src/nvim/eval/typval.c b/src/nvim/eval/typval.c
index c29c67124f..b70554c1ef 100644
--- a/src/nvim/eval/typval.c
+++ b/src/nvim/eval/typval.c
@@ -2050,6 +2050,12 @@ bool tv_islocked(const typval_T *const tv)
/// to compute the length with strlen() without
/// translating.
///
+/// Both #TV_… values are used for optimization purposes:
+/// variable name with its length is needed only in case
+/// of error, when no error occurs computing them is
+/// a waste of CPU resources. This especially applies to
+/// gettext.
+///
/// @return true if variable is locked, false otherwise.
bool tv_check_lock(const VarLockStatus lock, const char *name,
size_t name_len)