On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:55:35PM -0400, Zlatin Balevsky wrote: > The state chain code uses the reflection api heavily. Official > tutorials from Sun recommend reflection to be used only as a last > resort, i.e. if the problem cannot be solved any other way. RTTI in > win32 adds tons of overhead. <insert other examples here>
Are you sure you mean RTTI or full reflection here? We use instanceof heavily - but it seems very unlikely that it uses any more resources than a virtual call. > > Is anyone out there 100% positive that reflection in java is cheap, > lightweight, efficient? If not I suggest we put getting rid of it on > the TODO list -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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