[mikepurvis]

I'm not a Java person, but my understanding is that in Java everything is boxed anyway, so the implementation of the "generic" logic is always just dealing with a pointer-sized entity and it's a matter of whether the dereferenced object on the other end of that has the required fields/methods.

[renox]

> Java everything is boxed anyway

Not true, there's int and Integer.

[mikepurvis]

Right but you can’t use them as type arguments to Java’s generics so they’re not really relevant in this context.