So true! Also, the JIT compiler of the JVM does dome things that are pretty close to magic, at least from my point of view. And I guess Oracle will continue to

So true! Also, the JIT compiler of the JVM does dome things that are pretty close to magic, at least from my point of view. And I guess Oracle will continue to improve it. I know the following is a "Sufficiently smart compiler"-type argument, but: It's not entirely impossible that future versions of the JVM - where primitives "don't exist anymore" - would simply use primitives when they detect that it's possible.