From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2003-06-27T06:56:51+09:00
Subject: Re: API for Ruby/Java integration through JNI (feedback needed!)


> What kind of performance penalty is there accessing the Java objects
> in this way?

Performance can become very fast completely unuseable. The latest Java
release reduced the reflexion overhead by a factor 10-20. But it
still hurts to go through all the security checks of the java platform.
This was the reason for SUN to use this anonymous inner classes in
Swing instead to go through the Reflextion API.

But if you want to interact with a high level Java API it will be
okay.