Given that her research is heavily focused on how people learn how to program, I can't imagine that any recommendations she might have regarding speed reading code would not be informed by her research.
How we learn and the speed at which we read (how we chunk the information together - and how as an author we put together information to be readily chunkable) are very closely tied together.
Edit: hold on! I think i got lost in the double-negatives, and I agree with you. :)