Clarification on migration to value types and boxed vs unboxed representations

[Vitaly Davidovich]

How does that help? You need a heap object (array) and if you then modify
one of the structs in there, you need to copy it and emplace it back into
the array slot.

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On Jan 5, 2015 9:01 PM, "Simon Ochsenreither" <simon at ochsenreither.de>
wrote:

> Mutable structs aren't used all that often in c# but there are times when
>> they're very useful.  C# allows passing them by ref, which mitigates this
>> problem.  This also allows one to have large structs but avoid the copying
>> cost.
>>
>> What's the plan to avoid such copying costs with proposed value types in
>> java?
>>
> You could pass them in an array.
>