Long valueOf instead of new Long

[Chris Hegarty]

Otavio,

I skimmed over the patches and they look ok to me. I think they would be suitable for inclusion in jdk9/dev.

-Chris.

P.S. I do not currently have time to sponsor this, but I cc’ed Pavel who may be able to help get his in.

On 14 Jun 2014, at 14:46, Otávio Gonçalves de Santana <otaviojava at java.net> wrote:

> Reason: The Long class has cache and using it, will save memory and will
> faster than using create new instance of Long.
> 
> webrev:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16109193/open_jdk/long_value_of.zip
> 
> similar: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8044461
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