This is straight up false, why do you think Scala doesn't have primitive values? Long will be either a value or reference type as needed, despite being spelled only one way instead of two different ways in java.
A 'primitive type' is one which can be directly operated on by intrinsic CPU instructions. My understanding of Scala was that all objects (such as Long, Int...) are encapsulated inside of an object.
Therefore an array of boxed types will not be memory aligned; and any vector instructions (which are very important to scientific computing) cannot be used.
Perhaps something has changed in Scala land since I last looked(??).
Therefore an array of boxed types will not be memory aligned; and any vector instructions (which are very important to scientific computing) cannot be used.
Perhaps something has changed in Scala land since I last looked(??).