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Re:Under the Hood with Java 10 Enhanced Generics by pkinsky on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @10:51AM (#8815036)
Scala supports value types now: http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/value-classes.html
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Re:Under the Hood with Java 10 Enhanced Generics by hyperpape on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @11:35AM (#8815263)
The document says that you can't actually always avoid the Object allocations, because of the JVM. I'm pretty sure you'll need VM changes in addition to language changes for this.
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