Multi-standalone communication

[Richard Gaskin]

Jesse Sng wrote:
> I wasn't talking about AppleScript, but AppleEvents. These are far 
> simpler and much faster to send/receive and decode than AS.
> 
> 6 to 10 per second is probably not a problem for AppleEvents....

Yes, AE is MUCH faster than AS, but I wonder how they benchmark against 
checking for the existence of a file.  One the one hand, the general 
rule of thumb is that any time you touch the disk you're slowing things 
down, but on the other hand checking the existence of a file will 
usually be working in the OS' cache after the first request, and even AE 
has quite a few layers of obverhead.

Checking the existence of a file benchmarks here at 0.0165 ms on a 1GHz 
PB G4, running the second script I posted at 
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2006-December/091219.html>.

Anyone have time to run a comparative benchmark?

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