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Hi folks!
New to using reflection APIs.
I was wondering what the performance impact would be for `::functionReference.name` ?
More details in the :thread-please:

```class MyClass {
  fun myFunction() {
    ...
    Log.d("${::myFunction.name)})
  }
}```
What would be a problem with this?

In some cases I have seen projects log functions names for various reasons.
I wanted to ensure if the function is ever renamed that the log would stay up to date to.
Is this too clever?
What is the trade off?

<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-16304/Compile-time-intrinsic-names-shall-be-properly-treated-as-constants|https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-16304/Compile-time-intrinsic-names-shall-be-properly-treated-as-constants>

Although KT-16304 is still open, the linked ticket <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-11531> is already completed. Access to names of all callables is optimised so you will just see a string constant in the bytecode :ok_hand::+1:. This solution for logging function names looks good to me, and won't have a performance cost. If you want to check for yourself, you can use the bytecode viewer.