Does functions occupy more memory for each instance of the same object?

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Imagine this extreme situation:

A class City with 10 variables, but 1000 lines of functions and logic that operates these variables.

Class Person {    
    // 10 variables
    int age = 20;
    int height = 180;
    String name = "Name";
    .
    .
    .
    // 1000 lines of functions and logic
    public void increaseAge(int years){
        age+=years;
    }
    
    public void doLogic(){
        //some logic
    }
    .
    .
    .
}

I don't know exactly how much memory will occupy a instance of this class, but let's say that the variables occupy 10 bytes and the 1000 lines of functions occupy 1 kb to put a sample amount.

If you have 100 instances of that class, the 100 times repeated variables should occupy 10*100 bytes but what happens with the functions? will you have 1*100 kb memory occupied for these functions? Or will the compiler do something to avoid that?

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I don't know exactly how much memory will occupy a instance of this class, but let's say that the variables occupy 10 bytes and the 1000 lines of functions occupy 1 kb to put a sample amount.

An instance of this class will occupy 10 bytes in this scenario. (That's not actually possible, as objects have headers of various fixed sizes ranging from 4 to 12 bytes depending on JVM settings, and even then they're rounded up to a multiple of 8 bytes, but the point is that you only pay for the variables of the class.)

There is only one copy of the implementations of the functions for a given class stored in memory.

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