[swiftcoder]

Proguard was heavily influenced by the needs of early Android devices, where memory was at a real premium. Reducing the size of static tables of strings is a worthwhile optimisation in that environment

[mort96]

Okay but we're talking about Minecraft on desktops and laptops, where the relevant optimizations would be runtime performance optimizations, no?

[swiftcoder]

Probably, but proguard tends to bundle the whole lot together