This application discloses a class loading method and apparatus. The method is applied to a computer device, the computer device includes a target binary file, the target binary file includes a correspondence between class names of a plurality of classes and full information of the plurality of classes, and the class names are in a one-to-one correspondence with the full information of the classes. The method includes: determining a class name of a to-be-loaded class required for running an application program in the computer device; obtaining full information corresponding to the class name of the to-be-loaded class based on the class name of the to-be-loaded class and the correspondence between the class names of the plurality of classes and the full information of the plurality of classes; and running the application program based on the full information corresponding to the class name of the to-be-loaded class.