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I thought one of the things promised in Java 9 was to finally fix the primitive mess, including all of the boxing and pointer chasing. Yet I can't find that here.

I also thought that type reification was being researched.

Does anyone know if either of these is still a thing?

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Yes, they are both being worked on. They're just not sure they'll be ready in time for 9.

The project to watch here is project Valhalla - valhalla-dev AT openjdk DOT java DOT net. Indeed the full solution of value types will not land until Java 10, but Java 9 will hopefully contain the very useful Collection of primitives enhancement (you can currently only have Collections of Objects, primitives are auto boxed into their Object equivalents at much greater overhead).

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