Re: Efficient XML loading [continuation of NSString from mapped NSData thread]

FROM : Matt Gough
DATE : Thu May 15 10:11:53 2008

On 15 May 2008, at 00:20, Jens Alfke wrote:

> Because it would be orders of magnitude slower. Even the property 
> list parser can read the iTunes library in a few seconds. Extracting 
> all that information via AppleEvents would certainly take minutes.
> Taking that amount of time, it would be subject to race conditions, 
> since the library might change while your script is iterating it.
>


Fair enough. Out of interest, is it the exchange of the AppleEvents 
that is slow, or iTunes handling of them (if you can tell). I remember 
long ago writing some plain AppleScripts for an early iTunes and it 
could get fairly simple info in 'a few seconds' for large(at the time) 
libraries (10,000 songs). Maybe if things have gotten slower since 
then someone should report a bug. (No, I don't still have the scripts 
handy)

Matt