Any way to further optimize Java reflective method invocation?

Question

I am wondering if there are any additional optimizations I can implement to improve the speed of reflective invocations in Java. Not that the performance is prohibitive, but

Answer 1

I ran some tests around Chris Jester-Young's answer and using the verbose options, I definitely observed the compiler take some action around the 15th invocation. Hard to say if there's much performance differential without a more sophisticated test, but it is persuasive. Here's the output:

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[Loaded sun.reflect.ClassFileConstants from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded sun.reflect.AccessorGenerator from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded sun.reflect.MethodAccessorGenerator from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded sun.reflect.ByteVectorFactory from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded sun.reflect.ByteVector from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded sun.reflect.ByteVectorImpl from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded sun.reflect.ClassFileAssembler from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded sun.reflect.UTF8 from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded java.lang.Void from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded sun.reflect.Label from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded sun.reflect.Label$PatchInfo from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded java.util.AbstractList$Itr from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded sun.reflect.MethodAccessorGenerator$1 from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded sun.reflect.ClassDefiner from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded sun.reflect.ClassDefiner$1 from C:\jdk1.5.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar]
[Loaded sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1 from __JVM_DefineClass__]
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I guess the InvokeDynamic business is not attracting too many developers on the basis of reflection speedup/elimination.

Thanks Chris.