Why are annotations under Android such a performance issue (slow)?

Question

I\'m the lead author of ORMLite which uses Java annotations on classes to build database schemas. A big startup performance problem for our package turns out to be the call

Answer 1

Google has acknowledged the issue and fixed it "post-Honeycomb"

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7811

So at least they know about it and have supposedly fixed it for some future version.