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It doesn't bother me to leave off Byte and Short, since these types are already somewhat crippled and difficult to use. I guess it's all a matter of how much extra bytecode we're talking about.

That said, I don't really mind either way. Boolean, Int, Long, Double, AnyRef are the ones I care about.