On May 15, 2007, at 6:25 AM, Arnaud Nicolet wrote:

> Le 15 mai 07 à 14:17 Soir, James Sentman a écrit:
>
>> Apple events will be slightly faster, and avoid some of the things
>> already mentioned. But realistically a single script vs a single
>> apple event will have no noticeable difference in speed at all.
>>
>> The saying goes that nothing takes any time at all unless you do it
>> more than once ;)
>>
>> So if you're looping and gathering hundreds of bits of info then the
>> slight overhead of a script vs an event will add up. If you're only
>> doing 1 or 2 things before returning then the benefit will be
>> virtually nil. So all other things being equal, and none of the
>> already mentioned things cause problems, then there is only a benefit
>> if you're looping through a lot of them.
>
> Thank you!
>
> I question comes to mind: can AppleScript be non-installed?
> I think AppleEvents are part of the OS so is always available, but
> scripts, are they?

AppleScript is a part of the OS, and has been for quite some time.

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