Improving Reflection Performance

Here are some ways to reduce some of the cost of reflection and of the MemberInfo cache.

• Avoid using Type.InvokeMember to call late-bound methods
• Avoid case-insensitive member lookups
• Use BindingFlags.ExactMatch whenever possible
• Call the non-plural GetXX method if you know the name of the instance you care about (.NET Framework 2.0 only)
• Cache only the handle to a member (.NET Framework 2.0 only)

Adopted from Joel Pobar's excellent article Reflection: Dodge Common Performance Pitfalls to Craft Speedy Applications.