Re: Script slowing down - suggestions?
Re: Script slowing down - suggestions?
- Subject: Re: Script slowing down - suggestions?
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:10:43 -0800
At 10:16 +1100 3/7/2002, Martin Crisp wrote:
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So, after all that, my question is: What causes AppleScript to slow to
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this extent? Is it the number of interactions with the Finder (the log
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file is constantly being opened & closed, as are the player files)? Or
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is it the 'second-level' loading of compiled scripts? Or something else?
Uninformed instinct suggests to me that the issue is tied up with how
AppleScript does garbage collection.
Depending on how Apple dealt with underlying differences in that area in
Mac OS X's tools, it might or might not be the case that under Mac OS X
your suite of scripts doesn't have the slowdown.
I might tend to view Python as a more suitable prototyping environment for
this sort of problem (but knowing Python fairly well helps me say that).
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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