Improve performance by dismantling Reflection where possible

[frankiesardo]

Improve performance by dismantling Reflection where possible

[frankiesardo]

That's an interesting idea, I will explore it.
For what I can see, one way to reduce every helper to a common superclass is to accept Object as a target. But that way we introduce a performance overhead every time we invoke those methods (explicit downcast to access target fields) as opposed to one-time overhead of reflection. I need to devise some benchmarking tests.

[creativepsyco]

I think casting would be better than Reflection? I wonder if there is a way to get away with all the Reflection calls. Dagger v2 has a proposal that is aiming for this direction.

[frankiesardo]

#22 Good call, runtime performance improved at least by a factor of 10x. Thanks for the heads up.