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Alt text:A screenshot from the linked article titled "Reflection in C++26", showing reflection as one of the bullet points listed in the "Core Language" section

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For runtime reflection, no, you'd specifically be able to do things that would be impossible to optimize out.

But the proposal is actually for static (i.e. compile-time) reflection anyway, so the original performance claim is wrong.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. I don't know how C++ could reasonably have Java-like reflections anyway...