Performance dilemma

I have an application written in Java which runs pretty slow. I was wondering if I remove all the spaces and line breaks (not to mention empty lines) will my app run faster?

Java
Now _you ^have TWO problems!^!!

>>1
I'd also recommend shortening all your variable and function names as much as possible, preferably using single letters. This might seem a little harsh (as you can't describe the behaviour of a function in its name), but the performance gain is worth it.

>>1
dont do it! you cannot sacriface readability and proper programming practices for performence. that way sun wins and you lose.
oh wait you allready lost and sun lost and everybody lost and IHBT.

>>1
Hello, Frozenvoid

>>3

Thank you, I've started to do this. Thank God for the refactoring features in Eclipse. Makes it much easier.

>>5
Hello, `Anonymous'.

>>7

Hello, Dexter Morgan.

non-YHBT answer:
Are you making proper use of the JIT? Make sure you're using the server version instead of the client one. Did you profile your application to look for bottlenecks?

>>1
Fucking /prog/ get out of my ENTERPRISE... oh wa--

>>1
No. Whitespace is removed in the compilation stage, long before your application is converted to Java bytecode. Removing spaces has no effect on the runtime of your program.

>>3
While method and package names do appear in Java .class files — and hence longer names will produce larger class files — any performance gain would be minimal. At most you'll save a few bytes of memory in the class file's constant pool.

Hey guys remember when you could speed up your interpreted BASIC programs by using ? instead of PRINT etc?

>>9
Why are there two versions of the JVM in the fist place? All benchmarks show the server one is much faster, and I can<

>>13
It uses hundreds of megabytes of RAM.
Kind of like LISP.

>>14
It uses hundreds of megabytes of RAM.
That can be said about anything Java-related,