Re: Damn send button / Wind chill
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:
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Ran this, which did show a difference between current date inside one (or
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two) tells, and a naked current date (500 was not enough repetitions...all
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results were 1; kept the style of reporting results backwards):
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set repetitions to 20000
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set time1 to the current date
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repeat repetitions times
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tell application "Finder"
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tell application "BBEdit 6.5"
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current date
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end tell
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end tell
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end repeat
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set time2 to the current date
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repeat repetitions times
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tell application "BBEdit 6.5"
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current date
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end tell
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end repeat
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set time3 to the current date
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repeat repetitions times
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current date
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end repeat
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set time4 to the current date
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{time4 - time3, time3 - time2, time2 - time1}
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--> {9, 53, 53}
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-- units are seconds; machine is dual 533 with plenty of RAM, Mac OS X
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10.1.3; AS 1.8.1
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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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