Of course, in this particular case, worrying about the overhead of manipulating an Integer when you are in the process of jumping through the hoops to put your thread to *sleep* is somewhat silly. ;) In general though, using Ints by default is a reasonable performance compromise. -Edward On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Daniel Fischer < daniel.is.fischer@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 30 March 2011 20:47:37, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
Can’t Integer be implemented in a more efficient way that it’s done currently?
Theoretically, sure. Practically, everything above a minor speedup would be very hard, I think. And, as Johan mentioned, Integers can't be unpacked, I don't see how that could be achieved, so for IntMap and the like, performance would be drastically worse even if Integer manipulation itself got significantly faster.
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