performance of dictionary lookup vs. object attributes

[Andre Meyer]

Hi all

I was wondering about the performance comparison of either using a
dictionary or an object for a large collection of "things". Therefore
I have run the attached test. I create a dictionary and an object.
Both get the same number of items/attributes, respectively. Then, for
both the values are read often (iterations).

Here are the results:

attributes 100
iterations 1000000
dic 25.515999794
obj 138.570000172

Is the test meaningful and are you surprised by the results? I am,
actually, because I would have assumed that attribute access with an
object should be faster because lookup can be precompiled.

kind regards
Andre
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