Dumb question about comments

Are comments processed by bots or are they ignored completely?

Why am I asking? When I debug a bot, I have to step over comment lines individually. If there are five comment lines in row, then it will be five step overs in the debugger. If I disable the comments, the debugger does not load them. One does not see them, and there is nothing to step over.

So, I have been wondering if the botrunner is the same. Is it looking at and stepping over each comment in a bot unless they are disabled? (Why are comments enabled or disabled?)

Just being curious here. -dvn