Outrageously slow AppleScript performance

[Bill Vlahos]

One important addition on this…

The performance issue is only in the IDE. Standalone's performance is good!

Bill Vlahos
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On Oct 2, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:

> Thanks everyone. It turns out that RunRev knows about the issue:
> http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11358
> 
> Richard, I will be at the meeting tonight and as my contribution topic for the meeting. See you there.
> 
> Bill Vlahos
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> On Oct 2, 2014, at 7:42 AM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com> wrote:
> 
>> Unless the AS needs to be built dynamically, you could compile it, and just
>> launch it through LC.
>> 
>> ~Roger
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Bill Vlahos wrote:
>>> 
>>>> When I execute the AppleScript listed below in the AppleScript Editor
>>>> it works in about 1 second. Take the same script, put in in a
>>>> LiveCode field and do field “name” as AppleScript and it takes
>>>> between 1 and 2 minutes to do!
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Why?
>>>> 2. How can I make it run quickly?
>>> 
>>> The time difference is big enough that I suspect Zyrip is on the right
>>> track:
>>> <http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2014-October/206543.html>
>>> 
>>> But in general, executing AppleScript from LiveCode will almost always be
>>> somewhat slower than running the same script within Apple's AppleScript
>>> Editor for two reasons:
>>> 
>>> 1. In AS, the interface to the AE subsystem is initialized when the app
>>> opens, but in LC it needs to be setup at runtime when the call is made.
>>> 
>>> 2. In AS scripts are compiled before being run, but in LC we're passing a
>>> string to the AS subsystem, which it then has to compile before executing.
>>> 
>>> Neither of those should take quite that long, though.
>>> 
>>> If you're coming to tonight's LiveCode User Group meeting in Pasadena
>>> please bring your project and let's brainstorm ways to diagnose what's
>>> going on with it.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Richard Gaskin
>>> Fourth World Systems
>>> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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