[Mono-devel-list] System.Reflection Performance

[Ben Maurer]

Hey duders!

On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 08:45, Ravi Pratap M wrote:
> Hi Peter, Ben
> 
> On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 00:37, Peter Williams wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> > 
> > On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 00:29, Ben Maurer wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Today I was doing performance testing and noticed that some reflection
> > > operations were taking alot longer than I thought they would. So, I
> > > decided to profile. My origional issue was with MethodBase.Invoke. I
> > > wrote the following test:
> > 
> > No input on your question, but I wanted to ask -- I've seen you
> > committing optimizations left and right in MCS. Do you have a list
> > somewhere of easy general techniques for optimizing C# programs? I know
> > that personally, at least, I don't have a very good sense for what kinds
> > of practices are especially efficient or inefficient. It seems like it'd
> > be valuable to write up some kind of document with pointers.
> 
> 	I completely agree with this. I know for a fact that Miguel, Ben and
> even Zoltan committed many different optimizations to MCS to make it as
> fast as it is today. 
> 
> 
> 	I think we should write up a document from inputs from these three (and
> others) so that others don't have to rediscover them :-)

I agree, it is very important to get this information known inside the
Mono development community. I see alot of mistakes that come up again
and again, in the BCL and in MCS. We need to be proactive and audit for
slow performance.