New Candidate JEP: 401: Primitive Objects (Preview)

[Iris Clark]

The following JEP with scope "SE" has been moved to the Candidate state:

  401: Primitive Objects (Preview)
       https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/401

  Summary: Enhance the Java object model with user-declared primitive
  objects, which are class instances that lack object identity
  and can be stored and passed directly, without object headers or
  indirections. This is a preview language and VM feature.

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    https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/1

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Thanks,
Iris