June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
10h 10m
English
When importing libraries, the fully qualified name—including the class and package name of each imported function—is stored in the class file. Thus, limiting the number of imports may reduce the size of a class file significantly. One large class will probably consume less memory than a set of smaller classes, and the import overhead of additional convenience methods will often weigh more than the code actually saved.
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