Reflection types are now considered to be built-in, so their absence means the
runtime is broken and the compiler can't work at all; this condition probably
should be handled on another level for all built-in types
Reflection interfaces (interfaces in kotlin.reflect.* in core/builtins/) are
now fully considered as built-ins and can be accessed via KotlinBuiltIns. This
increases runtime size by ~20kb, but only because KotlinBuiltIns is static and
is therefore constructed only via resource loading from the compiler classpath
at the moment. As soon as it's possible to inject KotlinBuiltIns to the
particular resolution process, the metadata on JVM will be loaded via standard
annotation mechanism (kotlin.jvm.internal.KotlinClass/KotlinPackage) and wasted
runtime space will be reclaimed
Pavel V. Talanov