Any reason to clean up unused imports in Java, other than reducing clutter?

Question

Is there any good reason to avoid unused import statements in Java? As I understand it, they are there for the compiler, so lots of unused imports won\'t have any impacts o

Answer 1

I read somewhere, some years ago, that every imported class would be loaded at runtime with the importing class. So removing unused, especially whole packages, would reduce memory overhead. Although I suppose that modern versions of java deal with that, so probably it is not a reason anymore.

And by the way, with eclipse you can use Ctrl+Shift+O to organize imports, but you can also configure a "cleaner" that deal with such things (and many others) each time you save a java file.