IDE plugins/ tools to inline primitive types to generic classes

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Java boxing/ unboxing has a performance overhead, so I would like to inline the primitive types into generic classes, such that:

public class SomeGenericClass<T> {
    public T someValue
}

will be transformed into

public class IntGenericClass {
    public int someValue
}

I do came up with a trick that does this, which is:

  1. Use the Refactor function in the IDE to rename the generic <T> to <SomeUniqueName>, anything that won't appear in your codebase

  2. Using the Replace function to replace "SomeUniqueName" with "int" or other primitives

However, this is relatively slow to do so, especially when you are dealing with a large codebase. This is also quite error-prone if the class used <T> as the type of other generic classes. For example, Set<T> will become Set<int>, which will lead to a compiler error.

Is there a tool or IDE plugins to do such a job in one (or maybe serval) clicks, and allows you to pick another implementation that works the same as a Set<int>?

Right now I am using IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, so an IntelliJ IDEA plugin will be best for me. However, I won't mind launching other IDEs to generate the "primitive classes" for once and just switch back to IntelliJ IDEA.

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