ToString() using reflection is slow

hi,I use Apache Commons ToStringBuilder reflection to convert beans to text lines of a big text file (~100MB in size). Reflection is slower that is clear but I'd like to know how much it is slower compared to explicit conversion of data members to strings? thanks,
[286 byte] By [navrsalea] at [2007-9-25]
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I read somewhere that reflectively accessing a field is about 1000 times slower than accessing the field directly. Maybe it's gotten better.
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