Re: possible bug? Radically different time profile for list access in script objects or by explicit reference.
Re: possible bug? Radically different time profile for list access in script objects or by explicit reference.
- Subject: Re: possible bug? Radically different time profile for list access in script objects or by explicit reference.
- From: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 15:22:45 -0500
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Subject: possible bug? Radically different time profile for list access
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in script objects or by explicit reference.
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From: email@hidden (Michael Sullivan)
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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:17:00 -0500
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I wanted to post a copy of this over here because I'm not sure if any of
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the apple folks read the macscrpt list.
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... it came up that
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applescript has a radically different time profile for accessing lists
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through a reference (or encoded in a script object). The standard
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handling is *far* slower on long lists.
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Should this be submitted as a bug report?
The AppleScript developement team, (or at least the people responsible
for writing the documentation), are aware of the speed differences, since
they discussed it in the Language Guide:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/interapplicationcomm/Apple
Script/AppleScriptLangGuide/AppleScript.99.html#16659
Of course, both Serge Belleudy-d'Espinose, Victor Yee, and others were
able to refine the ways in which this access behavior can be taken
advantage of.
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