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