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Scala's Int, Long, Short, Byte are all value types, so are passed and returned without allocating. Specialized collections like Array[Byte] also avoid allocating a boxed byte. But generic collections such as ListBuffer[T] are going to allocate a box every time a number of primitive type is inserted.

There is no idea ideal fix for this. But consider carrying around number objects instead, so that the box gets allocated once, and then the code just carries around the number in its boxed form. So instead of allocating and discarding boxes for numbers all the time the code just carries around an object reference to a single boxed object.

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