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Re: what happened to Mail's scripts menu?
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Re: what happened to Mail's scripts menu?


  • Subject: Re: what happened to Mail's scripts menu?
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 10:57:05 +0100

Jim Witte wrote:

> > One very important reason for the application specific-menus is
>> performance:
>> scripts usually run considerably faster from application-specific
>> menus. In
>> a lot of apps, that can make a huge difference.
>
>   Why is this?  I'd think that either the app or the system would be
>invoking the same RunOSA (or whatever) function..  Unless they're are
>repeatedly called callbacks involved, I can't see why there would be
>any difference..

Context switches are expensive. Also, if memory serves, the Apple Event Manager can take some cost-saving shortcuts when handling events that don't need to cross process boundaries. You'd really need to ask an Apple engineer for a definitive answer.

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