On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Jim Gallacher wrote:
I still think the correct place to create the index dictionary is in the __init__ phase. Using the dictionary-on-demand idea only improves performance on the second access to a form field. For the first access you are still iterating through the whole list for each field name.
I am still not convinced we need an index. I'd like to see some concrete proof that we're not engaging in "overoptimization" here - is this really a bottleneck for anyone?
If we're concerned (and I'm not at this point) that FieldStorage is too slow, we should just rewrite the whole thing in C :-)
Grisha
