New candidate JEP: 401: Primitive Objects (Preview)
Posted on March 18, 2021
Enhance the Java object model with user-declared primitive objects, which are class instances that lack object identity and can be stored and passed directly, without object headers or indirections. This is a preview language and VM feature…
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