Re: what happened to Mail's scripts menu?
Re: what happened to Mail's scripts menu?
- Subject: Re: what happened to Mail's scripts menu?
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:35:14 -0700
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 15:36:58 +1000, Shane Stanley
<email@hidden> said:
>On 17/7/05 1:17 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I have a vague recollection that Chris Nebel stated that they had done
>> something to the system Script menu in either Panther or Tiger that removed
>> the impedance you otherwise get running scripts from the outside, and that
>> they wouldn't be slower than run from an app's script menu. But my
>> recollection is vague - I don't know for certain that 1) Chris said just
>> that, and 2) it's true in all regards.
>
>I just tried a simple script that asks Entourage for its name. Repeating 500
>times takes about 9 seconds from the system script menu; repeating 10000
>times from the app's script menu takes about 2 seconds. That's a very
>artificial test, but it shows there's a big potential gap.
Now try it with FastScripts, which claims to do the context switch for you
beforehand (hence the "Fast" in the name). m.
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