Does cleaning the properties file help ?

[rwc]

My properties files has accumulated a lot of 'junk' (fields from various STV's, imports, etc that I no longer use)

If I cleaned out the properties file, does it gain me anything outside of a tiny amount of disk space? (Does startup time decrease? What about memory usage?)

thanks

rwc

[GKusnick]

If it bothers you, there's no harm in cleaning it up (if you're careful and keep backups). But I wouldn't expect to see any detectable improvements in memory use or startup performance.