Re: AppleScript's script size limit
Re: AppleScript's script size limit
- Subject: Re: AppleScript's script size limit
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:04:19 +0200
At 11:28 AM -0700 20/10/02, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
AppleScript cannot compile scripts larger than about 140K source text, I say
"about" because it seems to vary a little depending on the "parts of speech"
- the syntax.
Not the AppleScript formatting - removing ALL formatting and
having every single syntax element as Geneva 10 plain text made no
difference whatsoever , unlike a much higher limit i once discovered back in
AS 1.3.7 (OS 8.6) and unlike a much lower limit related to style runs with
the AppleScript Debugger language.
Very interesting input. Thanks much for your tests, Paul.
My O.O2 euros about that point: a French professional who kindly
reported his tests to me said Smile passed a 400 KB (we are talking
about number of characters of the source text) test, but failed to
compile a 488 KB script. (OS 10.1.2, AS 1.9, Smile 2.4.6).
But it seems to me that the limit I once hit in AS 1.3.7 was much higher
than that. Is the AppleScript team even aware of this 140K limit, or do they
do all their testing in Script Editor? Is this limit something essential,
built in, or could it be expanded?
I would say, do they do any testing at all? :-)
Just kidding, Steve.
In my opinion, we are probably facing a minor bug of AppleScript. I'd
bet that they could have it fixed within 15 minutes.
Emmanuel
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