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Re: Mountain Lion memory leak?
From:
John Delacour <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:47:48 +0000
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On 13/12/2012 18:42, Emmanuel LEVY 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...

A good excuse to do the task with a language that has no such limits and 
which doesn’t take all night to get there!

do shell script "perl <<'END'
my %hash;
for (1..100000){
   $hash{$_} = $_/7;
}
printf '%.2f', $hash{14000};
END
" --


--JD

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