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in thread Does the size of a variable's name affect memory?

Indeed. So, to answer the OP's question, yes, the second program will take more memory than the first one. About 25 bytes more, as your variable name contains 25 extra characters. But that's not a "considerable" amount, considering that what's on the right hand side of the assignment, the constant 1, already takes 20 bytes.
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