To be honest when I said that I can was thinking about how less boxing occurs in (statically typed) functional languages. But like you and others said in the th

To be honest when I said that I can was thinking about how less boxing occurs in (statically typed) functional languages. But like you and others said in the thread immutability can actually result in the creation of more objects, they just have different life cycles and properties that make the work of the GC easier.