Re: Compiling as Application Bundle vs. Application
Re: Compiling as Application Bundle vs. Application
- Subject: Re: Compiling as Application Bundle vs. Application
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:11:48 -0700
On Mar 4, 2008, at 8:32 PM, email@hidden wrote:
I have an applescript application that loads scripts to be run. It
was originally compiled as an application on a Power PC machine but
I'm now using an Intel Macbook. I've read that compiling
applications as application bundles allows them to run as Universal
rather than PowerPC on an Intel machine.
That's correct. Old-style single-file applications are saved PowerPC-
only; bundles are universal.
My question is what difference it makes to the scripts that are
being loaded and run by either the application or application
bundle. Do the scripts that are being loaded run any faster / slower
depending upon how the applescript is compiled (as PPC application
or Universal application bundle)? or does it make no difference at
all?
Practically speaking, it probably doesn't make much difference. Your
average applet doesn't do that much of its own computation and spends
most of its time blocked on other applications. Of course, that's
just "probably", and may not apply in your case. The real answer is
the same as for all optimization questions: first ask if it needs to
go faster; if the answer is "yes", then try it out and measure the
difference.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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