What is the most ridiculous pessimization you've seen? [closed]

Answer 1

I once had to attempt to modify code that included these gems in the Constants class

public static String COMMA_DELIMINATOR=",";
public static String COMMA_SPACE_DELIMINATOR=", ";
public static String COLIN_DELIMINATOR=":";

Each of these were used multiple times in the rest of the application for different purposes. COMMA_DELIMINATOR littered the code with over 200 uses in 8 different packages.