I have a script that goes through a humungous test file looking for stuff.  Simple version:

set keywords to {"foo","bar","Fred"}
set thePieces to splittext bigFile using "whatever"
repeat with onePiece in thePieces
	repeat with oneWord in keywords
		if onePiece contains oneWord
			(do some stuff with it)
		end if
	end repeat
end repeat

This worked fine until I upgraded to Mountain Lion, and then it started to hang up about halfway through --at different places at different times, with the same file.

To find out what was happening I put in some display dialogs,and that fixed it.  Replaced the dialogs with one-second delays,and that works too. Seems Applescript Editor needs to stop and think about some things, or maybe clean out some memory when it's doing arrays.

Any ideas what's happening?



Bill Steele
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