>
> The overflow check is the same whether you react to an overflow by
> boxing the result or react to an overflow by throwing an exception!


But then all the rest of the code has to check whether things are boxed or not.
Moreover, the JVM makes it very hard (impossible) to manipulate
something that is
 either a boxed or a primitive value.

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