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Package name: libcommons-primitives-java
Version: 1.0
Upstream Author: The Apache Software Foundation
URL: http://commons.apache.org/primitives/
License: Apache-1.1
Description: Collections and utilities for Java primitive types
The Java language is mostly Object based, however the original designers chose
to include eight primitive types - boolean, byte, char, double, float, int,
long and short. Commons Primitives provides a library of collections and
utilities specially designed for use with primitive types.
JDK 1.5 added auto-boxing to simplify working with primitive types. This is
simply a mechanism of automatically converting a primitive to an Object and
vice versa, an operation with potentially large memory and performance issues.
Commons Primitives offers collections that hold the primitive type directly,
and as a result they are usually smaller, faster and easier to work with than
their purely Object based alternatives.
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