The script below prints a list of 34 Burmese characters. I happen to
have a font for these but I'm not sure that matters.
If I run the script in BBEdit or TextWrangler just after launching
the apps, there is a huge delay before the output is printed (up to
15 seconds) but subsequent runs produce no special delay.
#!/usr/bin/perl
binmode STDOUT, q~:utf8~;
for (4096..4129) {
$c = chr();
$text .= qq~$_\t$c$/~;
}
print $text;
I get the same sort of behaviour if I run the script in Script Editor
or Smile as a shell script, but there is no delay running it in
Terminal.
Can anyone explain what causes this delay?
JD
