Does Java include comments on the compiled code?

Asked 2010-10-27T10:21:06.343

Well, the title is self-explanatory. I wondered this while compiling a project which has a lot of lines commented. It's a bit silly because the jar file wouldn't increase much (some bytes) but I'm curious if this could affect a program with a lot of code and comments.

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It would not affect the execution or performance (unless you have commented out the wrong statements :-)

But it definitely would affect readability. There is no reason to have large blocks of commented out code (in production), version control is the way to go

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answered 2010-10-27T10:24:03.037

Does Java include comments on the compiled code?

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