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Re: What is Best Method To Determine Duplicate Items in a Large List?
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Re: What is Best Method To Determine Duplicate Items in a Large List?


  • Subject: Re: What is Best Method To Determine Duplicate Items in a Large List?
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 21:52:13 +1000

On 13 Aug 2017, at 7:25 pm, Nigel Garvey <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> This is essentially Shane's script, but simplified (and slightly faster)

I'll grant you simplified, and more elegant with countForObject:, but I've run
several comparisons of thousands of iterations of each, and the figures all
fall within about ±4%, and mostly ±1%. In fact, I've rarely seen such
consistent figures.

Of course real data could tip it one way or the other…

--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>


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