Using C# 3.5 I am trying to generate dynamic types at runtime using reflection emit. I used the Dynamic Query Library sample from Microsoft to create a class generator. Everything works, my problem is that 100 generated types inflate the memory usage by approximately 25MB. This is a completely unacceptable memory profile as eventually I want to support having several hundred thousand types generated in memory.

Memory profiling shows that the memory is apparently being held by various System.Reflection.Emit types and methods though I can't figure out why. I haven't found others talking about this problem so I am hoping someone in this community either knows what I am doing wrong or if this is expected behavior.

Contrived Example below:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Reflection.Emit;

namespace SmallRelfectExample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            int typeCount = 100;
            int propCount = 100;
            Random rand = new Random();
            Type dynType = null;
            SlimClassFactory scf = new SlimClassFactory();
            for (int i = 0; i < typeCount; i++)
            {
                List<DynamicProperty> dpl = new List<DynamicProperty>(propCount);
                for (int j = 0; j < propCount; j++)
                {
                    dpl.Add(new DynamicProperty("Key" + rand.Next().ToString(), typeof(String)));
                }
                dynType = scf.CreateDynamicClass(dpl.ToArray(), i);
                //Optionally do something with the type here
            }
            Console.WriteLine("SmallRelfectExample: {0} Types generated.", typeCount);
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
    public class SlimClassFactory
    {
        private readonly ModuleBuilder m
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