[PDFBOX-5573] fix unnecessary boxing/unboxing

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.27, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.28, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Axel Howind
• Created: 18/Mar/23 08:54
• Updated: 13/Apr/23 14:54
• Resolved: 18/Mar/23 10:25

Description

Most of the changes make the code just more readable and the compiler does auto(un)boxing where necessary.

Replacing Boolean.valueOf() and Float.valueOf() on the other hand completely avoids a boxing/unboxing cycle because in both cases the result is stored in a primitive.

PR: https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/pull/159

And a question: do you prefer patches or pull requests for PDFBox?