Do javac or Hotspot automatically add 'final' as an optimisation of invariant variables?

Question

The consensus seems to be that there is a performance benefit to marking member variables as final because they never need reloading from main memory. My question is, do jav

Answer 1

AFAIK, they do not, and thus, you suffer minor penalty. This, however, can be done automatically with IDE tools like Eclipse "Cleanup" feauture.