In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Delacour)
wrote:
> I did a test using osacompile and osascript. The fastest result
> comes from using osascript with a precompiled AS script.
As one would expect. Good. I'd be shocked if it were otherwise.
> This takes
> 0.8 seconds. If I use -e and the script text, it takes about 1.5
> seconds.
I get this on my PowerBook G4:
$ time osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to activate'
real 0m0.635s
user 0m0.200s
sys 0m0.150s
$ time perl -MMac::Glue -e 'Mac::Glue->new("Finder")->activate'
real 0m1.733s
user 0m1.160s
sys 0m0.150s
$ time osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to get name of window 1'
pudge
real 0m0.447s
user 0m0.200s
sys 0m0.100s
$ time perl -MMac::Glue -e 'print Mac::Glue->new("Finder")->prop(name =>
window => 1)->get'
pudge
real 0m1.599s
user 0m1.210s
sys 0m0.170s
The AppleScript version is certainly lighter weight than the equivalent Perl
script, in part because the Perl script takes a lot more to compile, there's
a lot more Perl code to compile in the modules, and there's the dynamic
libraries to load in.
The Mac::Glue version doesn't need to "ping" the Finder to get its aete like
the AppleScript version does, but that very well may be a wash, as Mac::Glue
needs to read in the aete from the glue file on disk.
When you do multiple iterations, the increase is tiny. If I add a 'for
0..10' to the window name Perl script:
real 0m1.778s
user 0m1.290s
sys 0m0.190s
Which goes toward what I am about to post to the MACSCRPT list about how
Perl can be quite efficient, if you can find a way to preload the libraries
(maybe with a daemon) and precompile the script, like in X-Chat, where
execution is virtually immediate, because the perl library is loaded in, and
the script is cached in memory.
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