Message958

yup, I did some fiddling with PyJavaClass so that it used a PyDictionary instead of a PyStringMap.   Performance wise, it improved but not to the degree that it improved with PyStringMap.  Even having the Strings interned in the PyDictionary did not give us as big a boost as PyStringMap did.  This may just mean that PyDictionary could use some additional tweaking.  Swapping in a HashMap will help a little as there will be less lock acquisition going on.  But I can't believe that is the key to the better performance I was seeing.

leouser