Re: getting a file list in sorted order
Re: getting a file list in sorted order
- Subject: Re: getting a file list in sorted order
- From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:53:37 +1200
on Sun, 18 Aug 2002 17:15:15 -0300 Bill Briggs wrote:
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We talked about this off-list, and Nigel's way was faster, but I've
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noted that this oddball double coercion is even faster, even when
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using the loop (on my test case which had 32 text files). The case
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that took 10 seconds coercing directly from file ref to alias takes
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less than a second this way.
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set pathString to item 1 of theList as text
:) I now feel vindicated for pedantically using i for references and n for
number in loops, making a new list and setting its end would be slightly
faster.
I'm curious why looping takes twice as long on your setup as my old 8.6 iMac
A.
_____________________________ Andy
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