Every byte matters Published 2026-06-01 on Farid Zakaria's Blog I have spent a large portion of my career working in Java. In that time, you get used to huge classes. New functionality? Just add a new method and field to the class. The cost of each new field is rarely considered. Performance is often considered from a classic computer science perspective by considering asymptotic analysis of the algorithms and data structures in-use. Turns out that even within a growth scale for your algorithm,.
