Kabir wrote : Changing it would be a big job, but it could be made pluggable. Flavia did some stuff for her masters which we had planned to add to AOP later, which I think should speed this up. I'll let Flavia provide more info on that. Yes, I did some stuff that optimizes the pointcut matching, replacing the matching by a search on a joinpoint graph. This replacement is performed only on dynamic aop operations, because it is cheaper to do the standard way (i.e., iterate through each joinpoint of a class) when loading new classes or when running aopc. There is already a branch with my work integrated, but since this branch was created before we went 2.0.GA, I would need to perform more integration, so I could add this to JBoss AOP trunk. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4230848#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...