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It will still have a small impact:

-) Less work for decompression

-) Less total length means lexing+parsing will be a bit quicker

-) shorter class names will also mean a lower memory consumption because of shorter strings, and ideally fewer allocations if some pooling or smart allocator is used

But those points can probably be completely ignored, since JS is a way way bigger factor.



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