Re: Problems with speed & "Info For"
Re: Problems with speed & "Info For"
- Subject: Re: Problems with speed & "Info For"
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:30:06 -0800
On 1/31/02 8:43 AM, "Brian Johnson" <email@hidden> wrote:
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The "info for" solution is actually lots faster (11 vs 3 seconds in a 500
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count repeat loop) if the target folder is small (38 items, 1.4MB).
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Interestingly, if the target is an alias to the folder or a file, it takes
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longer (14 v. 9 and 15 v. 10, respectively) and if it's a simple file they
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come out about equal (10 v. 10). For now, the "info for" solution seems
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like the winner, even if the resulting script is fairly slow in some
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cases.
I think you've been told about Akua's 'basic info for' and 'extended info
for' a few times by now. It has all the advantages of 'info for' without the
downside: it's extremely fast, and doesn't compute 'size'.. If you were
willing to consider Tanaka's osax, why not Akua's osax?
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Paul Berkowitz