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Why is it

This script takes four seconds to complete:

tell application "Finder"
set foo to entire contents of (path to documents folder)
end tell

This script runs almost instantaneously:

tell application "Finder"
set foo to entire contents of (path to documents folder) as alias list
end tell

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"Experience in that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."  --F. P. JONES

 

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