Github user mxm commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/942#issuecomment-125603184
We can add a comment that the new ones are faster on primitives. It is not
possible to deprecate the older ones because they are inherited from the
Accumulator interface which uses Generics. It's just an optimization.
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