Re: Highlights of AppleScript 1.5.5 in Mac OS 9.1
Re: Highlights of AppleScript 1.5.5 in Mac OS 9.1
- Subject: Re: Highlights of AppleScript 1.5.5 in Mac OS 9.1
- From: "Arthur J Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:40:01 -0500
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Subject: Re: Highlights of AppleScript 1.5.5 in Mac OS 9.1
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:17:51 +0000
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From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
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"Arthur J Knapp" wrote on Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:46:10 -0500:
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> But surely, you can't trust a speed test where one of the results
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>is zero.
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Not for a precise ratio, no. But logic does allow the broad
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generalisation that if test one takes between nine and ten seconds and
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test two takes between zero and one seconds, then test two completes in a
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shorter time. If both tests are aimed at - and achieve - the same result,
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then the method involved in test two is quicker. :-)
Right. I was just concerned that the original poster was speaking
in terms of how many "times" faster a given method was, which
requires having significant values.
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> If we increase the number of repetitions from 100 to 1000,
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>and discover that {2, 0} becomes {20, 0}, we still haven't
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>learned much about the actual ratio between the two tested
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>methods.
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Once it gets to that sort of result, the precise ratio isn't import. I've
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already made up my mind about which method I prefer! :-)
Right, it's usually yours, Mr. Speedy. ;-)
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NG
Whenever I wish to speak of you in code, I shall use GN.
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