#Does a final method serve any purpose in a final class?

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ripe temple
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I was looking through the OpenJDK source code, and saw that a method is classed as final if the method is final or it's holder (class) is final. Does that means that there is 100% no purpose to making a method final in a final class, maybe apart from making an ultra-micro optimisation where the 2nd check for a final class isn't ran? (the OpenJDK code is return is_final() || holder()->is_final();)

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