On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:33:54PM +0100, Dieter Maurer wrote: > Paul Winkler wrote at 2003-2-24 16:27 -0500: > > ... > > > It is easy to optimize this to "u + a" (via a dictionary), > > > then thousands of roles should not be a problem. > > > > would that mean you have to build a (potentially huge) dictionary every > > time? I'd greatly appreciate it if you could expand on this suggestion. > > Even when you create the dictionary anew each time, it will have > (almost) "u+a" complexity. > > However, the dict might be cachable in volatile variables > (i.e. "_v_" variables).
good idea, thanks. > As it is not my problem, I am a bit reluctant to search > for optimazation possibilities. understandable... for anyone else who's interested, i just found this by Alex Martelli: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52303 -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )