In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Pink) wrote:
> Not a question per say, but since switching my iTunes code from > Mac::OSA::Simple ( i.e. writing AppleScript, then compile and > executing it ) to Mac::Glue, I've seen performance gains of about > 300%. Any thoughts on why? Is it just my environment? Or is there > something more there? Mac::OSA::Simple is going to be slower for most basic operations. It takes your raw AppleScript, then compiles it, then executes it; it's that compilation phase which is really slow. Where it really gets speed gains is when it executes already compiled scripts, using either load_osa_script() to load a compiled script from disk, or compile() to compile script text. Mac::Glue (baed on Mac::AppleEvents::Simple) doesn't have the slow AppleScript compilation phase; though it has its own slowness with translating the perl into raw Apple events, that's faster than compiling AppleScript. -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/
