Re: The Case of the Missing Case Statement
Re: The Case of the Missing Case Statement
- Subject: Re: The Case of the Missing Case Statement
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 22:55:24 +1000
On 5 Apr 2015, at 10:40 pm, S. J. Cunningham <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I take your point about "being lost in the noise" which is why I tried to make everything else but the IF handlers identical and run a sufficiently large number of cases. That way small differences should start showing up.
Yes and no. Say you have two methods that take 1 second and 1.001 seconds. Run them 1000 times and you get, in theory, 1000 seconds and 1001 seconds. The difference, as a percentage, doesn't change: a small difference remains a small difference. Unless you can produce tests where what you're testing takes a significant percentage of the total time, you're not going to get a meaningful result -- especially given the inherent variability in AS times. And the fact that it can't be done in this case probably tells you all you need to know.
(And once you start runnings stuff in AS lots of times, you're probably open to issues like AS garbage collection kicking in.)
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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