This is equivalent to unboxing those floating-point numbers.
These definitions also make a convenient place to perform argument evaluation (and perhaps unboxing) for strict constructors.
But saving allocation is not everything, unboxing can still produce benefits.
This scheme is extended to perform inter-procedural unboxing as follows.
Unboxing the object also returns a copy of the stored value.
The trend of "unboxing videos" had emerged during 2006.