Frontier and Filemaker under OS X

[Matt Neuburg]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 23:04:47 -0500, Nick Cahill <ndcahill at facstaff.wisc.edu>
said:

>I recently upgraded from Frontier 6 under Mac OS 9 to Frontier 7 and
>then 8 under OS X, and have run into a problem that has stopped me
>dead. A number of my Frontier scripts call various Filemaker
>databases in simple ways -- for instance
>
>DBRow =  get(record[cell[1] == someValue])
>
>Under OS 9, (Frontier 6.0.5, Filemaker 5.0) this lookup was almost
>instantaneous. Under OS X, on the other hand, it can take 20-30
>seconds to retrieve a single record from a 1300-record database. This
>is a show-stopper since I often have to go through thousands of
>lookups.

My solution is simple: Panorama. See my review in TidBITS. Okay, it's not
OS X native. But it's insanely fast; you can sort on thousands of records
instantly, whereas I wouldn't know how to write a sort that is as slow as
Filemaker's. m.
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