On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 5:02 PM, David Anthoff <anth...@berkeley.edu> wrote:

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> What do these mean?
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13055/what-is-boxing-and-unboxing-and-what-are-the-trade-offs


> And should I be worried, i.e. is this an indication that something slow
> might be going on?
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Boxing requires allocation and can block optimizations, so it can be a
problem to have box/unbox at points where you might hope to be working with
contiguous primitive values (such as within a loop). But there's really no
hard-and-fast rule.


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