On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 11:05:27 UTC, PauloPinto wrote:
Java might eventually gain value types. The IBM J9 VM already has them.http://duimovich.blogspot.ca/2012/11/packed-objects-in-java.html http://www.slideshare.net/mmitran/ibm-java-packed-objects-mmit-20121120
That is a very good news for java ! However, a lot of code will have to be rewritten to take advantage of this. This will allow to improve on a whole class of performance related problems.
