On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 07:36 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
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> 
> Reference types don't compose nicely that way. In a language with valye 
> types, the juxtaposition of two items (value or reference) is a va;ue. 
> In Java, it's a reference (so you need to allocate a new object etc.)

But that object is likely very short lived, and (especially with the G1
GC), handled very efficiently. But as ever, without benchmarks and
actual data there are no facts, only opinions.

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