Source: golang-github-modern-go-reflect2 Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team Uploaders: Martín Ferrari , Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11), dh-golang, golang-any, golang-github-modern-go-concurrent-dev, Standards-Version: 4.1.4 Homepage: https://github.com/modern-go/reflect2 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-github-modern-go-reflect2 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-github-modern-go-reflect2.git XS-Go-Import-Path: github.com/modern-go/reflect2 Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-go Package: golang-github-modern-go-reflect2-dev Architecture: all Depends: golang-github-modern-go-concurrent-dev, ${misc:Depends}, Description: Reflection API without runtime reflect.Value cost The reflect2 package provides a reflection API that avoids runtime reflect.Value cost: . * reflect get/set interface{}, with type checking * reflect get/set unsafe.Pointer, without type checking * reflect2.TypeByName works like Class.forName found in Java . This package is designed for low level libraries to optimize reflection performance. General applications should still use the standard library reflect.