import java.util.ArrayList ... if they had reference equivalents of the primitives, would need to convert the references to their primitive counterparts before calling one of the “add ...

the Java primitive type boxing and unboxing performance issues go away. There’s no discernable increase in garbage collection, and Java Mission Control won’t report any primitive to object conversion ...

One of the things that confuses me about .NET literature is their talk of boxing and unboxing. A lot of .NET material reads somewhat easily because it was so similar to Java which I took a couple ...