Re: List size limit
Re: List size limit
- Subject: Re: List size limit
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:27:02 +0000
Simon Forster wrote:
I seem to recall people mentioning on the list that AppleScript lists
start to get a bit flakey above a certain size. 15,000 items OK?
The issues I can recall are: 1. serialising lists breaks for over
approx. 4000 items, and 2. item lookups normally have O(n)
efficiency, which means performance sucks on large lists unless you
use certain fairly well known kludges that force constant-time O(1)
lookups. But apart from those issues I think you should be okay.
HTH
has
p.s. You might also consider using Perl/Python/Ruby for this job, as
they tend to be much more powerful, efficient and robust than
AppleScript. They'll certainly zip through your filesystem much
faster than AS.
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