As the output shows, the recommended “indent” approach prevents inlining of the constant variables and allows the updated Constants.java constants to be fully reflected in the executed code.

There are other ways you can categorize variables in Java, and other ways you can manipulate data. For instance, a constant is a variable whose value never changes.

An OpenJDK proposal would introduce computed constants to Java. Immutable value holders that are initialized at most once, computed constants offer the performance and safety benefits of final ...