Primitives have been controversial since the early days of Java, and rumor has it that Oracle is considering dropping them in a future version of the JDK. But John Moore argues that Java needs ...

Java primitives and performance. When Java was first introduced in the 1990s, it was decided that all user-created types would be classes. Only a handful of primitive types were put aside as special.

I always assumed that when Java introduced primitive type boxing and unboxing, JVM level optimizations to address any Java autoboxing related performance issues were implemented as well. I assumed ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java Scanner class provides methods that take String input and convert that String into any ...