is attribute access a hash-lookup by name?

[Greg Ewing]

Aahz wrote:

> Also, with new-style
> classes, you can use __slots__ to force vectorized lookups, but it's
> more a memory-saving technique than a speedup.


I don't think it's a speedup at all, since you still
have to look up the class dict to find the descriptor
which tells what the slot offset is.

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