On Dec 13, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Emmanuel LEVY <[log in to unmask]>
 wrote:

> 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:
> 
> --------
> 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
> --------
> 
> Emmanuel

That is horrifying.  It's like the old 32k limit on script size.  

I just did a test and I hit the same limit on Tiger.  Intriguingly, on 9.2 I hit the limit at half of that.  Which means someone thought to kinda fix it at some point.

So this isn't the problem.

-Mark
Some days I feel like I am an experimental archeologist.