They have to be stored somewhere, but they don't have to be what the JVM uses wh...

		mort96 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition 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.

At runtime this is going to be a branch instruction yes