<AWT Dev> [9] Review Request: JDK-8030093 Generify DataTrasfer classes

[Sergey Bylokhov]

Hello.
As far as I know autoboxing is implemented via valueOf().
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/408661/what-code-does-the-compiler-generate-for-autoboxing

On 20.01.2014 13:42, Anthony Petrov wrote:
> i Petr,
>
> In a few places in 
> src/share/classes/sun/awt/datatransfer/DataTransferer.java you're 
> eliminating calls to Integer.valueOf() and instead assign the values 
> directly. Note that this causes the auto-boxing to take place 
> unconditionally, and thus may hurt the performance a bit. I suggest to 
> leave the valueOf() calls as they are to take advantage of the 
> Integer's cache. Please refer to the javadoc for this method for more 
> details. The same suggestion applies to Long (and maybe Boolean, too?) 


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Best regards, Sergey.