dynamic-invoke – Row Coding

Difference Between Invoke and DynamicInvoke

October 21, 2022 by Tarik

When you have a delegate instance, you might know the exact type, or you might just know that it is a Delegate. If you know the exact type, you can use Invoke, which is very fast – everything is already pre-validated. For example: Func<int,int> twice = x => x * 2; int i = 3; … Read more

What is the __DynamicallyInvokable attribute for?

October 4, 2022 by Tarik

It is undocumented, but it looks like one of the optimizations in .NET 4.5. It appears to be used to prime the reflection type info cache, making subsequent reflection code on common framework types run faster. There’s a comment about it in the Reference Source for System.Reflection.Assembly.cs, RuntimeAssembly.Flags property: // Each blessed API will be … Read more