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ASP Coding for Performance - The Dictionary Object

This object is often overlooked and can often be an excellent replacement for hand-crafted arrays. It provides an efficient look-up facility, via key/data pairs. Of course, don't forget to explicitly destroy the object after use by setting = nothing. ;-)

Finally, as tempting as it may seem, avoid storing this object at application level. The component is not truly free-threaded, so doing so will result in unpredictable results and data corruption may well result. This is a shame, as in many situations having the dictionary at application level would be very useful. Perhaps Microsoft will fix this in a future release.

See also Beware of storing components at sesson/application level.

 

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