Java: what is JITC's reflection inflation?

Question

I recently came across this interesting term and searched on Net to know more about it. However the info I found is sketchy. Could someone pl. give me a somewhat detailed ex

Answer 1

Java Inflation is optimization of method calls made through Java Reflection API. It delegates infrequent method calls to cheap, immediately available but slow Java Native Interface and frequent method calls to fast but expensive, runtime generated method accessor.