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		saagarjha 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition The names need to be stored somewhere because they are exposed to the program that way

mort96 22 days ago [–]

They have to be stored somewhere, but they don't have to be what the JVM uses when it e.g performs a function call at runtime. Just having the names in memory doesn't slow down program execution.

saagarjha 22 days ago | [–]

At runtime this is going to be a branch instruction yes

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