Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Autoboxing and Performance ? Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:25:47 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <5csRt.197906$jW3.50636@fx23.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:24:51 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6b9e92482af47766954d85fb77d372f5"; logging-data="1024"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18duE+v0y5sGWAYZN4ooEyYKvjb60ZrgMU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130709 Icedove/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:K2Cgz/9CMvwLmuOjsN2PsJJu4do= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:25128 On 08/23/2013 06:17 AM, John B. Matthews wrote: > In article , > ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote: > >> Okay, maybe the proponents of »units« in this newsgroup >> actually want dimensions! > > For reference, JScience [1] has a useful implementation of > Units of Measurement [2], formerly JSR-275 [3]. The package > org.jscience.physics.amount includes examples of dimension > checking [4]. > > [1] > [2] > [3] > [4] > I'll drop a link here for my own memento. Units Dimensions and Dimensionless Numbers - Ipsen http://archive.org/details/unitsdimensionsa032710mbp