I used the trim file names script in the Applescript menu to batch trim about 1500 file names. This process took a few minutes, and according to activity monitor, this caused the finder to use over 90% of the CPU clock cycles.

Without any detailed knowledge whatsoever, I would opine that it's an interpreted rather than a compiled language, and it's pretty old timey too. in other words, inefficient.

It could be something specific to your machine, but it's likely that that particular script just isn't optimized for speed; it uses Finder, which is something of a mess.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/06/2009 09:36PM by Marc Anthony.