[Zope-dev] LOTS of roles?

[Paul Winkler]

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

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Paul Winkler
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