Efficient looping through AS3 dictionary

actionscript-3, iteration, iterator

Solution

Iterate through keys & values:

for (var k:Object in dictionary) {
    var value:ValType = dictionary[k];
    var key:KeyType = k;
}

Iterate through values more concisely:

for each (var value:ValType in dictionary) {

}

Problem

``` for (var k in dictionary) { var key:KeyType = KeyType(k); var value:ValType = ValType(dictionary[k]); // <-- lookup // do stuff } ``` This is what I use to loop through the entries in a dictionary. As you can see in every iteration I perform a lookup in the dictionary. Is there a more efficient way of iterating the dictionary (while keeping access to the key)?

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