The performance of retrieving a BeanInfo class from the Introspector has regressed significantly in Merlin from 1.3.

Part of this is due to the work done in rewriting Reflection in java from native code and part of this is due to fixing some bugs and the overhead of constructing a lot more temporary classes.

We should try to increase the performance of the Introspector for FCS. This is really important since tools like JBuilder really use the Introspector to populate the Component palettes and a slow Introspector contributes to slow start up time of java applications.

After a meeting with Ken Russel, he suggested some