64-bit array functionality implemented via libraries?

[Mark Thornton]

Neal Gafter wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot 
> <reinier at zwitserloot.com <mailto:reinier at zwitserloot.com>> wrote:
>
>     Wouldn't it be far more fruitful for the javac/JVM core time to figure
>     out how to make primitive generics work properly?
>
>
> More fruitful?  Sure, at the cost of an order of magnitude (or two) 
> more work.
The Scala people are working on specialization to reduce the amount of 
boxing required with 'primitives' (aka value types)

http://lamp.epfl.ch/~dragos/files/scala-spec.pdf

If they get it to work, perhaps the more fruitful approach would be to 
use Scala for tasks where this is important and not try to get it into Java.

Regards,
Mark Thornton