Using primitives directly in Nashorn

I am developing a program that uses custom scripts to customize most of the experience. One of the design implications is the fact that there is constant conversion from int / double / float to number and back. The conversion is overhead and therefore undesirable. For example:

The class that Javascript says:

class FromJava {
    public float getNum() {
        return 325.753;
    }

}

      

        
        
        
      

    

Javascript (executed in Nashhorn with a FromJava instance already installed)

function doMath() {
  print(typeOf(obj.getNum()); // Prints "number"
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

Is there a way to prevent unnecessary boxing or is this a necessary overhead of the current Nashorn implementation?