diff --git a/lib/json_api_client/helpers/dynamic_attributes.rb b/lib/json_api_client/helpers/dynamic_attributes.rb
index ba827c52..ac23ac3e 100644
--- a/lib/json_api_client/helpers/dynamic_attributes.rb
+++ b/lib/json_api_client/helpers/dynamic_attributes.rb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def []=(key, value)
       end
 
       def respond_to_missing?(method, include_private = false)
-        if (method.to_s =~ /^(.*)=$/) || has_attribute?(method)
+        if has_attribute?(method) || method.to_s.end_with?('=')
           true
         else
           super
@@ -38,16 +38,19 @@ def has_attribute?(attr_name)
       protected
 
       def method_missing(method, *args, &block)
-        normalized_method = if key_formatter
-                              key_formatter.unformat(method.to_s)
-                            else
-                              method.to_s
-                            end
-
-        if normalized_method =~ /^(.*)=$/
-          set_attribute($1, args.first)
-        elsif has_attribute?(method)
-          attributes[method]
+        if has_attribute?(method)
+          self.class.class_eval do
+            define_method(method) do
+              attributes[method]
+            end
+          end
+          return send(method)
+        end
+
+        normalized_method = safe_key_formatter.unformat(method.to_s)
+
+        if normalized_method.end_with?('=')
+          set_attribute(normalized_method[0..-2], args.first)
         else
           super
         end
@@ -61,10 +64,20 @@ def set_attribute(name, value)
         attributes[name] = value
       end
 
+      def safe_key_formatter
+        @safe_key_formatter ||= (key_formatter || DefaultKeyFormatter.new)
+      end
+
       def key_formatter
         self.class.respond_to?(:key_formatter) && self.class.key_formatter
       end
 
+      class DefaultKeyFormatter
+        def unformat(method)
+          method.to_s
+        end
+      end
+
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/test/unit/benchmark_dynamic_attributes_test.rb b/test/unit/benchmark_dynamic_attributes_test.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..54d31079
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/benchmark_dynamic_attributes_test.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+require 'test_helper'
+require 'benchmark'
+
+class BenchmarkDynamicAttributesTest < MiniTest::Test
+  def test_can_parse_global_meta_data
+    stub_request(:get, "http://example.com/articles/1")
+      .to_return(headers: {content_type: "application/vnd.api+json"}, body: {
+        data: {
+          type: "articles",
+          id: "1",
+          attributes: {
+            title: "Rails is Omakase"
+          }
+        },
+        meta: {
+          copyright: "Copyright 2015 Example Corp.",
+          authors: [
+            "Yehuda Katz",
+            "Steve Klabnik",
+            "Dan Gebhardt"
+          ]
+        },
+      }.to_json)
+
+    article = Article.find(1).first
+
+    assert_equal "Rails is Omakase", article.title
+    assert_equal "1", article.id
+
+    n = 10_000
+    puts
+    Benchmark.bm do |x|
+      x.report('read: ') { n.times { article.title; article.id } }
+      x.report('write:') do
+        n.times do
+          article.title = 'New title'
+          article.better_title = 'Better title'
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/test/unit/resource_test.rb b/test/unit/resource_test.rb
index 7c003dcc..edb4e4ca 100644
--- a/test/unit/resource_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/resource_test.rb
@@ -73,13 +73,13 @@ def test_formatted_key_accessors
     end
 
     with_altered_config(Article, :json_key_format => :underscored_key) do
-      article = Article.new("foo-bar" => "baz")
+      article = Article.new("foo-bam" => "baz")
       # Does not recognize dasherized attributes, fall back to hash syntax
-      refute article.respond_to? :foo_bar
-      assert_equal("baz", article.send("foo-bar"))
-      assert_equal("baz", article.send(:"foo-bar"))
-      assert_equal("baz", article["foo-bar"])
-      assert_equal("baz", article[:"foo-bar"])
+      refute article.respond_to? :foo_bam
+      assert_equal("baz", article.send("foo-bam"))
+      assert_equal("baz", article.send(:"foo-bam"))
+      assert_equal("baz", article["foo-bam"])
+      assert_equal("baz", article[:"foo-bam"])
     end
   end