It appears not and that's a good thing here. Java is based on explicit typing and I do not expect things to work w/ implicit conversions between value types. Gr

It appears not and that's a good thing here. Java is based on explicit typing and I do not expect things to work w/ implicit conversions between value types. Granted, that doesn't mean that a JVM implementation may not have a higher performing way to perform a cast between two of the same struct. There is of course boxing/unboxing that comes w/ converting between value and ref classes.