An early benchmark analysis of C++26 reflection's compile-time overhead using GCC 16. Key findings: the -freflection flag itself adds zero overhead, but including the <meta> header costs ~155ms per translation unit. Standard Library headers like <print> and <ranges> are the real bottleneck, not the reflection logic itself.
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