[Jython-dev] why fastGetDict and getDict?

[Leo U. <leo...@ya...>]

howdy,

Ive been trying to figure out why fastGetDict exists. 
My presumption that there was a set of inefficient
getDict implementations floating around but I haven't
found anything different than this:
    public PyObject fastGetDict() {

        return dict;

    }



    public PyObject getDict() {

        return dict;

    }


Ive surveyed these classes:
/org/python/core/PyClass.java
/org/python/core/PyClassMethodDerived.java
/org/python/core/PyComplexDerived.java
/org/python/core/PyDictionaryDerived.java
/org/python/core/PyFileDerived.java
/org/python/core/PyFloatDerived.java
/org/python/core/PyIntegerDerived.java
/org/python/core/PyListDerived.java
/org/python/core/PyLongDerived.java
/org/python/core/PyObject.java
/org/python/core/PyObjectDerived.java
/org/python/core/PyPropertyDerived.java
/org/python/core/PyStringDerived.java
/org/python/core/PySuperDerived.java
/org/python/core/PyTupleDerived.java
/org/python/core/PyType.java
/org/python/core/PyTypeDerived.java
/org/python/core/PyUnicodeDerived.java
/org/python/modules/sets/PySetDerived.java

and the only one that is different appears to be
PyObject which returns null for both.

so what's the scoop with these 2? :)
leouser

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