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Re: Get a list of applications
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Re: Get a list of applications


  • Subject: Re: Get a list of applications
  • From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 22:05:45 -0500

At 07/09/2003 08:27 +1000, Tim Bates wrought:

Seems to optimize itself. i ran it three times (DP 1.2GHz) and got
{96, 1084.0}
{96, 520.0}
{96, 179.0}
{96, 177.0}

On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 8:03 AM, John Delacour wrote:

set x to GetMilliSec
tell app "Finder" to name of application files in entire contents of folder "Applications" of startup disk
{count result, (GetMilliSec) - x}
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Greetings,

On the first run I heard the disk get accessed, and it took about 3 seconds to find 394 apps on my system (Dual 867).

On subsequent runs the time averaged 401.3 ms.

My guess is that the subsequent runs pull information out of cache.


Best Regards,

Christopher Stone
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