.NET 7 (Preview 5+) has some awesome performance improvements when it comes to reflection functionality like invoking methods BUT there appears to be some regressions too.
Here’s the timings I got when I benchmarked simple reflection scenarios which I got (and modified slightly) from Khalids excellent Common Use Cases For .NET Reflection article…
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As we can see there’s some pretty awesome improvements around invoking methods which is an approach used extensively in .NET land so these speed improvements should help a lot of apps.
At least for my run there appears to be a slight regression when accessing a private field. I’ll try the benchmarks again after .NET GA in November 2022 to see if this regression has been removed or lessened.
