Message953

its possible that this could be fixed by just ditching the PyStringMap used internally and switching over to PyDictionary.  From experimenting with gutting PyStringMap and replacing its internal arrays and hashing with a HashMap, I was able to get an increase in performance.  Given that the Dictionary appears remarkable similiar to that implementation---> forwarding to its Hashtable(yuck), there may not be a performance reason to stick with the PyStringMap(assuming that is the reason that there is a PyStringMap).

leouser