BOR and Perfmance

[Alon Raskin]

Hi Everyone,
 
I trust that everyone had a good weekend.
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One of the nice things about the BOR is the buffering approach that it =
provides. When you first access a Dictionary attribute, the whole record =
is retrieved and stored in a structure so any subsequent accesses to =
Dictionary attributes do not result in a call to the DB.=20
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My query is: Between two steps of a workflow, are all the BOR object =
instances re-instantiated? I got the feeling that they were but was =
unsure. If that is the case then doesnt that defeat the whole purpose of =
the buffering approach?
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I look forward to your thoughts/comments.
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Alon