A little puzzled by Ken's repetition on Twitter of the claim that V6 Applescript was speeded up (for my test script) before the 6.0 release.
I am simply not seeing the improvements which he reports – even in r195921 V6 is still running the same test script that Ken refers to nearly 10 times slower than V5.
- Perhaps there is some confusion about whether the reported optimisations were actually merged into the main build or not ?
- or perhaps a cross-labelling confusion about which version is running scripts slowly, and which at a reasonable speed ?
Script and test file attached herewith, for anyone who would like to run the test.
(Select the whole diagram, and run the script to centre it on the first page of the canvas).
Note that to recompile the script for a different version of OG you will need to close the other OG version, apply a trivial spacing edit to the script, and save it again.