Re: Various Qs about Intel and AppleScript
Re: Various Qs about Intel and AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Various Qs about Intel and AppleScript
- From: jj <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:42:52 +0100
- Thread-topic: Various Qs about Intel and AppleScript
Hmmm... Now that you mention it, I'm just working in a project which reads
compiled scripts and extracts certain data (eg, aliases and raw
apple-events)... But if the compiler works the same in both PowerPC and
Intel, it should write the same exact bytes to the scpt, and it won't be a
problem...
> To answer the particular question of "read" and "write", they always
> read and write big-endian data -- we made it that way so existing
> data files would work on Intel systems. You don't have to do
> anything special.
I know nobody will use AS for intensive Unicode (kind of) tasks, but won't
be this affect speed? Appart from this, if (read above) the compiler
compiles the same code in a Intel machine, will it run thru Rosetta? (more
speedless)
If the answer is Yes for both questions, Chris, one more off-topic question:
I'm sure Apple considered (now or before) the option of an entire re-design
of the AS language (as well as just trashing it). Will Apple do it sooner or
later, or this is an absolute NO? Are you already working on it? It's only
curiosity, as the old ASLG is not a so-outdated document, and the app I
mentioned works fine for compiled scripts dated from 1993 ;-)
jj
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