How is mytransform being used in this code?

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using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class EnemyAI : MonoBehaviour {
	
	public Transform target;
	public int moveSpeed;
	public int rotationSpeed;
	
	private Transform myTransform;
	
	void Awake()
	{
			myTransform = transform;
	}

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () 
	{
	GameObject go = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player");
		
		target = go.transform;
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () 
	{
	Debug.DrawLine(target.position, myTransform.position, Color.yellow);
		
   //Look at target

		
		
	}
}

So that is the code (I’m following some youtube videos as i learn), and i can see the piece of code that is drawing a line from the “target” object, to itself. I’m just trying to figure out how this code is assigning “mytransform” to itself.

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This code is caching your object’s transform into myTransform at the beginning of the script. Because transform is a reference type, its reference will be saved in myTransform. This is so your game does not have to find the object transform every time you call it which speeds up your script.