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Integer values were always stored on 4 bytes, regardless of the type. This changed in Java 1.4.
It has always been the case that the Java int type is 4 bytes in size, and long is 8 bytes. Java 1.4 didn't change this. If there is a grain of truth in the statement, I don't know what it is and it was poorly expressed.