Thank you, that was a great explanation. For what i've been using java for it's never really bothered me. When there is need to use primitives it's almost alwa

Thank you, that was a great explanation. For what i've been using java for it's never really bothered me. When there is need to use primitives it's almost always in the form of a list where you can just use an array instead to avoid the boxing/unboxing. The risk of null pointer exceptions when implicitly unboxing objects are more annoying..