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		swiftcoder 52 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition Proguard was heavily influenced by the needs of early Android devices, where memory was at a real premium. Reducing the size of static tables of strings is a worthwhile optimisation in that environment

mort96 52 days ago [–]

Okay but we're talking about Minecraft on desktops and laptops, where the relevant optimizations would be runtime performance optimizations, no?

swiftcoder 52 days ago | [–]

Probably, but proguard tends to bundle the whole lot together

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