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?
Well, I need to get some real work done today, but I will do some
benchmarking at some point. It's not like there's a big rush to complete
3.3.0 this week. I do like that Mike's code simplifies a number of the
the FS methods. It just looks more elegant.
"More elegant" is the best reason I can think of for refactoring it.
Heck, even if my implementation can be proved to be slower than the
original, I still like this one better because of sheer code size and
readability.
I don't think that you'll notice much of a performance difference, but I
like the fact that it:
- You get the same object instance:
assert (form['key'] is form['key'])
- Does not create a file object for every field
- Getting form['key'] a second time is cheap.
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Mike Looijmans
Philips Natlab / Topic Automation
