How costly is .NET reflection?

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In his talk The Performance of Everyday Things, Jeff Richter shows that calling a method by reflection is about 1000 times slower than calling it normally.

Jeff’s tip: if you need to call the method multiple times, use reflection once to find it, then assign it to a delegate, and then call the delegate.

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