Do your records include many many keys?

We were hit by a limit on the number of "keys" that AppleScript can store, those "keys" including the records' keys, all the variables' names and all the handlers' names.

This is easily tested:

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display dialog "ready to bug?"
repeat with i from 1 to 10000
	try
		run script "set r to {|" & i & "|:1}"
	on error -- Internal Table Overflow: your app is no longer usable, quit ASAP 
		display dialog i
		exit repeat
	end try
end repeat
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Emmanuel

On Dec 13, 2012, at 7:28 PM, Bill Steele wrote:

> I have a script that reads a series of Filemaker records, doing some processing and writing out a file based on each one. As it goes along it accumulates some information (title, abstract, filename, etc.) about each item in an Applescript record; at the end it read throughout the recoed and writes out a summary -- essentially a table of contents. 
> 
> All fine until we upgraded to Mountain Lion. Now it reads two or three records and then hangs in the middle of the next one. At first I though one of the Filemaker records was corrupted, but switching them around doesn't change the results. It seems as if Applescript is saying "Hey, I can only do so much of this and then I have to quit." The information read in from the Filemaker record presumably is overwritten each time, as it's assigned to the same Applescript variable. The best idea I can come up within that Applescript can only store so much information ion its own record. Or that the stuff being read in *doesn't* feet flushed. 
> 
> Ran the same script on a machine running Tiger. No problems. 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Bill Steele
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