Unnecessary boxing of byte to Byte

[kimholan]

Is there any particular reason to box the Bytes for the for-loop? Seems a bit unnecessary, although the JVM will probably inline this.

  public int decodeAndCheck(java.io.InputStream) throws java.io.IOException;
    Code:
       0: aload_0
       1: getfield      #2                  // Field tagBytes:[B
       4: astore_2
       5: aload_2
       6: arraylength
       7: istore_3
       8: iconst_0
       9: istore        4
      11: iload         4
      13: iload_3
      14: if_icmpge     78
      17: aload_2
      18: iload         4
      20: baload
      21: invokestatic  #18                 // Method java/lang/Byte.valueOf:(B)Ljava/lang/Byte;
      24: astore        5
      26: aload_1
      27: invokevirtual #11                 // Method java/io/InputStream.read:()I

vs

  public int decodeAndCheck(java.io.InputStream) throws java.io.IOException;
    Code:
       0: aload_0
       1: getfield      #2                  // Field tagBytes:[B
       4: astore_2
       5: aload_2
       6: arraylength
       7: istore_3
       8: iconst_0
       9: istore        4
      11: iload         4
      13: iload_3
      14: if_icmpge     72
      17: aload_2
      18: iload         4
      20: baload
      21: istore        5
      23: aload_1
      24: invokevirtual #11                 // Method java/io/InputStream.read:()I

[sfeuerhahn]

yes of course that is completely unnecessary. thanks