Should autoboxing be avoided in Java?

Question

There are instances where a method expects a primitive type double and you pass a Double object as a parameter.

Since the compiler unboxes

Answer 1

Autoboxing should be avoided. It can lead to errors because of overloading and it has some performance impact. Nonetheless it may not be an issue in your application. But be aware of the impact.

Here my post to that: https://effective-java.com/2010/05/the-advantages-and-traps-of-autoboxing/