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 performa
nce
> 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

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