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Re: Applescript 201 - speed
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Re: Applescript 201 - speed


  • Subject: Re: Applescript 201 - speed
  • From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:27:39 -0500
  • Acceptlanguage: en-US
  • Thread-topic: Applescript 201 - speed

Title: Re: Applescript 201 - speed
Yes, when timing appleScripts, something like the Heisenberg principle applies.

Any effort to precisely time a running script will slow it down because timing requires the script to send and receive apple events.

There are ways to get around that which work fairly well.  

You may also search ‘script timing’


On 5/24/10 10:18 AM, "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden> wrote:

Yvan's no doubt referring to the second edition.  The first edition has some tips on pages 259-60.  There's also a thread here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1877444

But in any case, if you have a script that is slow to run, the first step is to profile it so you know what to spend time trying to speed up and what not to bother with (advice repeated in the above thread).  The problem there is that it's tough to profile AS, especially given the lack of built-in support for high-resolution timestamps.

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Robert Poland <email@hidden> wrote:

On May 24, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Yvan KOENIG wrote:


Le 24 mai 2010 à 18:08, Robert Poland a écrit :


On May 24, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Tommy Bollman wrote:

There are some tips in the book Applscript The Definitive Guide by Matt Neuburg.

The loops are what you want to optimize.

What you really should get are some tools for timing milliseconds they are out there with some googling.

Best regards

Tommy Bollman

I looked at Matt's book and all I could find was a short section on loops.

A really efficient tip is the one upon list access (page 382).

My book, copyright 2003, doesn't seem to have anything about list access page 382.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 24 mai 2010 18:55:31

Robert Poland - Fort Collins, CO




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