• chandler/repository/persistence/DBRef.py:32 creates scads and scads of empty dictionaries. Could these be created lazily (that is, only when they need to have something in them?)
  
  While empty dictionaries don't seem like such a big deal, we have 20854 of them sitting around at startup time with rc --create --nocatch. This means they consume 2+M of RAM, a number which will likely rise as the number of Items in chandler goes up.

• This effect is lessened when we do not need to create the repository ( rc --nocatch ). It seems to me, however, that creating these dictionaries lazily could actually improve load time performance considerably, as we would not need to do thousands of dictionary creations.

• These could be rather uninformed conclusions, comments welcome.

-- TravisVachon - 25 Aug 2006