Re: Reified types and primitives

From: Roedy Green <see_website@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 17:35:21 GMT

On Sun, 18 May 2008 20:50:40 -0700, Mark Space
<markspace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

useful. Boxing and unboxing does take time, and that could be
unacceptable for some types of applications.

Eiffel has some way of treating primitives as Objects, but without the
overhead. It might be productive to find out how their scheme works
to see if any of it would be applicable to Java.
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