From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-06 01:31:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!skynet.be!bnewspeer01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewspost00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!not-for-mail From: Jon Skeet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:31:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83WP6.3874$yc6.728572@news.xtra.co.nz> <+FWVg+noA0yk@eisner.encompasserve.org> <9fjfc4$qdv$1@news.fsu.edu> <9fjkha$re7$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au> <9fkp2m$9gn$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au> Organization: Peramon Technology Ltd. X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.30 NNTP-Posting-Host: fw.peramon.com X-Trace: 991816273 reading.news.pipex.net 15023 193.132.195.125 X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8210 comp.lang.awk:2804 comp.lang.clarion:21192 comp.lang.java.programmer:73966 comp.lang.pl1:800 comp.lang.vrml:3536 Date: 2001-06-06T09:31:15+01:00 List-Id: Blaikie wrote: > > Reflection would be an *incredibly* slow way of doing that. Better would > > be to create (at startup) one object for handling each case, each > > implementing the same interface. Put *those* into a map of some > > description, then get out the "right" object and call one of the methods > > of the common interface. > > what makes u say reflection is so slow? seems alot of applications use it > alot (main one i can think of is jsp) Reflection is *far* slower than straight method calls, partly because there's an awful lot more to do. Yes, it's very useful *in its place*, but there's no need to do it in this case, and could easily turn it into a bottleneck if this code is run frequently. -- Jon Skeet - skeet@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~skeet If replying to the group, please don't mail me at the same time