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

Not sure though but read this somewhere Inflation means that for the first few runs (default 15) of a reflected method/constructor (from now on, any reference to methods applies to constructors too), it does so via JNI; the next time after that, it assembles a class file on the fly, and loads it. At that point, full JITting applies, and further calls to that reflected method has the same performance as directly calling that method