I've searched for the use of @specialized in the source code of the standard library of Scala 2.8.1. It looks like only a handful of traits and classes use this annotation: Function0, Function1, Fu...

Is it possible to specialize generic functions (or class) in Scala? For example, I want to write a generic function that writes data into a ByteBuffer: def writeData[T](buffer: ByteBuffer, data: T...

For performance and safety I would like to implement a fixed-size vector which is both immutable and specialized (I need fast arithmetics). My first idea was to use the @specialized annotation (bec...