Outrageously slow AppleScript performance

[Bill Vlahos]

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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>> 
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