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

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