64-bit array functionality implemented via libraries?

[Neal Gafter]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Mark Thornton <mthornton at optrak.co.uk>wrote:

> 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<http://lamp.epfl.ch/%7Edragos/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.
>

That may be useful for greenfield projects that don't intend to use any
existing Java APIs.  Such projects are the minority.  Java is worth
improving no matter what happens with Scala.