Not all attributes can be stored as static variables, or you couldn't add new ones at runtime. So there must also be a dictionary in the CustomDict subclass -- right? Are the only attributes that are made into statics the "all modules have these" names? (That is, the names I would find if I create a new Module object and examine it?) Or does make the names assigned in the __init__ method static as well?
What happens if one of the static-var-stored dictionary entries gets removed from one of these CustomDict subclasses? Is there a value that can be stored in the corresponding static variable that means "do a name lookup within superclasses to find this when you get this value (and raise a NameError if it's not found)" so that removing an entry will work correctly? (If retrieving one of the static-var-stored values is really just ldsfld / stsfld, with no check for whether the value returned means "there's no entry here", can things work right?) Maybe I should do some testing -- but it might not be fruitful until the just-discovered bug is fixed. At 06:09 PM 3/28/2006, Dino Viehland wrote (in part) >When you are running from a module we generate a module type which is a >subclass of CustomDict. That CustomDict stores the field values as static >variables which allows quicker access than requiring a dictionary lookup each >time through (in particular the module gets to just do a ldsfld / stsfld in IL >to get the value, but setting the value from outside of the module is still >relatively expensive). >[snip] J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
