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What is the impact of excessive runtime introspection on app performance?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Runtime introspection is expensive due to metadata traversal and reflection overhead.
Deep explanation
Functions like class_copyMethodList or respondsToSelector require scanning runtime metadata. Overuse in performance-critical paths causes CPU overhead and cache misses.
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