Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!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: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 18:34:41 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 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: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6b9e92482af47766954d85fb77d372f5"; logging-data="19540"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/mnUiubHvypy+lLfrHX3TcxVFfv2HsHcA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130709 Icedove/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:rF1ECVGFbfRZPOFJizfeu54b5Y4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:25134 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] > Thanks for the reminder. Javolution library Version 6 released earlier this month is a drastic change from the earlier versions that JScience library depends on. Work on JScience Version 5 seems to underway. A look at the source repository reveals that the org/jscience/physics/amount package will be replaced with a new org/jscience/physics/dimension and unit packages.