Re: Musings on Attributes (was Best Practices...)

[Jeff Peters]

On 23 Mar 2001, at 11:04, Steve Nelson wrote:

> Let me bring up the question again.... What problem are we trying to
> solve?

My tests tell me there's no real performance hit with formurl2attributes, so I 
see the problem in two parts:

1.  The "attributes" scope as generated by formurl2attributes isn't the 
Attributes scope, so you can't do loop operations over an attributes structure 
and see all form, url, and attributes variables.

2.  Formurl2attributes creates copies of form and url variables, thus doubling 
the server memory used for those scopes in Fusebox apps.  I'd much rather see a 
means to use a structure of pointers that would cover form-, url-, and 
attributes-scoped variables.  This would accomplish the same goals as using the 
current approach, while streamlining memory use and providing a complete 
structure for accessing variables "passed into" a Fusebox module.

That's the problem I'd like to solve.  It's not a showstopper, but it has 
important implications.

- Jeff


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