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AlphaSite on Dec 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is .NET reflection slow?

The JVM does a lot of this, right? I know there is a ton of speculative compilation for C2 and grall but is it done for reflection?

matthewwarren on Dec 17, 2016 | [–]

The JVM uses something called 'inflation' to make reflection faster.

See https://blogs.oracle.com/buck/entry/inflation_system_propert... and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10082523/java-what-is-jit... for more info

chrisseaton on Dec 17, 2016 | [–]

I don't think it's done in any JVM as far as I know.

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