Fix/erasure lub alternative #359
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This currently fails two tests in the backend. @DarkDimius can you take a look? I think this PR is preferable to #357 but we have to figure out the status of those failures.
(Why is it better to unbox instead of box? The difference is only there if the prototype is either a wildcard type or a selection prototype. the most common case would be the selection prototype, which in this case would be either to an operation on a primitive type or to a generic operation on object (such as equals, toString, hashCode). It seems more important to make the primitive operations fast because they occur more often and take less time than the object operations. The one exception could be equals but we will probably handle this by a decorator anyway going forward.)