Best practice excel addin retrievals of attributes of large flat sparse dim

Is anyone aware of a way to quickly lookup attributes of members of large flat sparse dimensions? One would imagine that since there exists a one-to-one relationship between a member and its attribute in the outline, Essbase shouldn't have to parse through the data to populate attributes when drilling down an attribute dimension. However, in practice, Essbase takes forever to return member attributes (depending on the base dimension and other factors, of course). Something similar to the subset rule within member selection would be ideal, but I don't seem to find anything. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Using Attribute Associations to generate a list of base dimension members should not have an overly adverse affect upon the retrieval time.
Introducing an Attribute dimension to a spreadsheet retrieval will slow things down because it introduces dynamic calculation to the query. If there are other dynamically calculated items in the outline, the intersecting dynamic calculations will slow retrieval times even further.

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