Is it faster to access final local variables than class variables in Java?

Question

I\'ve been looking at at some of the java primitive collections (trove, fastutil, hppc) and I\'ve noticed a pattern that class variables are sometimes declared as fina

Answer 1

Such simple optimizations are already included in JVM runtime. If JVM does naive access to instance variables, our Java applications will be turtle slow.

Such manual tuning probably worthwhile for simpler JVMs though, e.g. Android.