Timeline for Reflection: Is using reflection still "bad" or "slow"? What has changed with reflection since 2002?
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| Apr 13, 2018 at 19:53 | comment | added | Brain2000 | Performing a Reflection with gettype to pull one item in an enum is still over 30 times faster than throwing an exception with Enum.Parse( ). So reflection wins sometimes. | |
| Apr 6, 2012 at 13:57 | comment | added | Ramhound | It was always bad....Of course sometimes you have no choice, its up to the programmer to know when those times are, and avoid it otherwise. | |
| Apr 6, 2012 at 11:52 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/188232689613160448 | ||
| Apr 6, 2012 at 9:51 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2012 at 6:21 | answer | added | tdammers | timeline score: 22 | |
| Apr 5, 2012 at 19:57 | vote | accept | blesh | ||
| Apr 5, 2012 at 19:26 | comment | added | Michael K | Reflection will always be slower than direct calls, because you have to perform several steps to find and verify that what you're calling exists. | |
| Apr 5, 2012 at 19:24 | answer | added | Michael Borgwardt | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 5, 2012 at 19:19 | history | edited | blesh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 5, 2012 at 19:15 | answer | added | Robert Harvey | timeline score: 19 | |
| Apr 5, 2012 at 19:12 | history | asked | blesh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |