looking for long scripts (to test 'ash' (AppleScript Shell))

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#1

I’m looking for some long AppleScripts to use in benchmarking the compilation speed of my ‘ash’ (AppleScript Shell) scripting environment.
I say “long” scripts since what I’m interested in is scripts that take a relatively long time to compile. The run time is not really of interest.

I’d prefer scripts that don’t rely on any particular software or document setup, and it is preferable if the script doesn’t have any permanent effect on my system or applications. (e.g. I don’t want to accidentally delete some files because I ran your script)

About “ash”:
‘ash’ (AppleScript Shell) is an environment for running AppleScript commands interactively like is done with Unix commands in the standard Unix shells (e.g. ‘bash’).
It is available via the scriptbuilders site: http://scriptbuilders.net/files/ash0.55.html
but you might be better to get the latest version from my web site:
http://hayne.net/MacDev/Ash/
All feedback is welcomed.

[EDIT: Ash has been updated. Link fixed. ACB/Scriptbuilders]

#2

While AppleScripts may take a while to run, even large ones don’t take long to compile. Given your rather nice sqrt catch in Code Exchange, however, It occurs to me that Code Exchange might be a source of some rather varied test scripts for Ash. I assume also that Ash is not yet happy with Scripting Additions other than Apple’s ‘Standard Additions.osax’ - but I haven’t tested that yet.

#3

Indeed - I plan too comb through the archives to look for interesting scripts.

In general, ‘ash’ just passes the AppleScript on for execution to the normal mechanisms (e.g. via the /usr/bin/osascript tool) and so it doesn’t care that much about what it is executing. So I think any Scripting Addition should work transparently.