alt Hacker NewsSo you've made my point in showing how complex this is because you're incorrect [1][2]:
> By default, Java maintains a cache of Integer objects for values between -128 and +127.
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3130311/weird-integer-bo...
[2]: https://dev.to/marzuk16/understanding-integer-caching-in-jav...
it's easier to remember that it originated from the Byte range, where all bytes could be kept in. Character didn't have negative values so it did [0-128) instead. Long and Short are the same as Byte.
Years before the autoboxing/Integer.valueOf() caching stuff (and before generics), (I) used to have IntegerProvider that did similar stuff to higher ranges. Personally, I have considered autoboxing on integers net-negative for Java