Include the whole package or only the specific class?

Question

In my program i have to use sort function of the Collections class. Is that compile time remains same in both the cases?

What I thought is that the second case is gonna take long time to search for the Collections class, if there are other import packages.

Please correct me if am wrong.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '15 at 12:40

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Imports are only used to resolve class names, this is done before compilation. The overhead of searching whole packages should be negligible.

answered Aug 07 '15 at 12:40

meskobalazs

Am actually participating in some code challenges, So do u think it makes the difference in compile time? even in mili seconds – user2978725 Aug 07 '15 at 12:43
I would not worry about this. This is a matter of milliseconds at most. – meskobalazs Aug 07 '15 at 12:44

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