[fpc-devel] .NET Reflection vs RTTI

Thorsten Engler thorsten.engler at gmx.net
Tue Nov 20 08:28:08 CET 2007


> You forgot to complete: (...) but 99% of time the it just 
> makes for useless bloat ;-)

The type information required to make this work is required anyway to a)
support the compilation of IL into machine code b) to allow verification of
type safety and c) support the garbage collector. As such there is no bloat
whatsoefer in the context of .NET from supporting Reflection.

Cheers,
Thorsten




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