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snickerdoodle12 on July 25, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I ...

> but I also think a lot of it comes down to all non-primitive types being boxed Objects

They're working on it: https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/

eulgro on July 25, 2025 [–]

Project Valhalla started over 10 years ago. It keeps being mentioned, but with seemingly no end in sight. Is there an ETA?

Mawr on July 27, 2025 | [–]

Soon :) As of at least 8+ years ago [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13219955

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