My new script causes some demos to run at a slow crawl

[Foebane]

I have attached the enclosed screenshot of a script to an icon and used IconX to run it directly for all archives dragged into RDH0:, but whilst most demos run fine, some run at a snail's pace and I cannot figure out why. It seems that the stack size has nothing to do with it. So what is the problem?

EDIT: Mods, please move to Support.Apps

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Foebane

EDIT: Mods, please move to Support.Apps

Well, "support.Other" really but done

[Foebane]

I found the solution by putting each SPat command into separate scripts, seems there was a conflict of some kind.

[jPV]

Originally Posted by Foebane

but whilst most demos run fine, some run at a snail's pace and I cannot figure out why.

Maybe because you use the "Run" command for executables, and Run puts them as background processes and let the shell continue immediately. So, if a directory has several executables (or both exe and script) and they multitask (or do some precalc or something before opening screens or disabling the multitask), they all run at the same time which of course leaves much less CPU time for each and makes them crawl.

[Foebane]

Originally Posted by jPV

Maybe because you use the "Run" command for executables, and Run puts them as background processes and let the shell continue immediately. So, if a directory has several executables (or both exe and script) and they multitask (or do some precalc or something before opening screens or disabling the multitask), they all run at the same time which of course leaves much less CPU time for each and makes them crawl.

Yep, I figured the second SPat command was the cause, but the archives I'm using have only one .exe or one .script each, so I thought I could do a check for both in the same script in a single "launch" icon, and I can't, as I found out. It didn't always happen, mind, only some of them.

And I had to use Run as I needed to use SPat, and SPat required a command to work with the wildcard.

[jPV]

Originally Posted by Foebane

And I had to use Run as I needed to use SPat, and SPat required a command to work with the wildcard.

Empty command would work:
spat "" #?.exe

[Foebane]

Originally Posted by jPV

Empty command would work:
spat "" #?.exe

That's done the trick! Thanks, jPV!