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Re: Damn send button / Wind chill
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Re: Damn send button / Wind chill


  • Subject: Re: Damn send button / Wind chill
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 13:22:41 +1100

On 4/3/02 1:07 PM +1000, John W Baxter, email@hidden, wrote:

> Ran this, which did show a difference between current date inside one (or
> two) tells, and a naked current date (500 was not enough repetitions...all
> results were 1; kept the style of reporting results backwards):
>
> set repetitions to 20000
> set time1 to the current date
> repeat repetitions times
> tell application "Finder"
> tell application "BBEdit 6.5"
> current date
> end tell
> end tell
> end repeat
> set time2 to the current date
> repeat repetitions times
> tell application "BBEdit 6.5"
> current date
> end tell
> end repeat
> set time3 to the current date
> repeat repetitions times
> current date
> end repeat
> set time4 to the current date
> {time4 - time3, time3 - time2, time2 - time1}
> --> {9, 53, 53}
> -- units are seconds; machine is dual 533 with plenty of RAM, Mac OS X
> 10.1.3; AS 1.8.1
>
> I find nothing surprising there.

And does it not suggest that whether a "tell app" is nested inside another
or not makes no difference to the performance of its contents?

--
Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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