Re: ASTONISHING RESULTS + erratum & addendum (Calculate sizes script)
Re: ASTONISHING RESULTS + erratum & addendum (Calculate sizes script)
- Subject: Re: ASTONISHING RESULTS + erratum & addendum (Calculate sizes script)
- From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 16:04:37 +1100
I guess we need to be sure that OS X hasn't cheated by using all those cache
files which the Finder now stores because it is so slow? i.e., the script
would take much more time if run on a folder which the finder had never
viewed?
On 9/2/02 10:10 AM, "Mr Tea" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Test 2: [20 GB volume; 6.11 GB used; 19,574 items; 14 top-level folders]
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OS 9 Finder... 79 seconds
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OS 9 AppleScript ... 4 seconds (now we're cookin' - eat dust, Finder!)
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OS X Finder... 4 seconds (whooo!)
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OS X AppleScript ... 1 second (ahh!)
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Test 3: [8.26 GB volume; 4.75 GB used; 106,572 items; 11 top-level folders]
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OS 9 Finder ... 101 seconds
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OS 9 AppleScript... 137 seconds (whoops! )
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OS X Finder ... 25 seconds
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OS X AppleScript... 15 seconds (yay! go, go, go, applescript!)
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