Script Editor in Snow Leopard painfully slow after adding apps to Library

I have four different Macs that I use from time to time, and on each of them I notice a constant: adding more items to AppleScript Editor's Library window slows performance of mundane operations (opening a dictionary, switching between Library window and editor window, scrolling in the Library window, etc).
In Leopard, I noticed little to know latency in opening a dictionary in Script Editor, but Snow Leopard's AppleScript Editor kills my productivity by making me wait on it with most UI interactions with the Library window.

Hello
I read another post of yours:
Topic : Issue with applescript and installer scripts
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2143147
It seems that the installer is calling osascript which is run in 64-bit mode under OSX 10.6 whereas XSLT Tools.osax invoked in the script is in 32-bit mode only.
Until the osax becomes 64-bit capable, you may try setting /usr/bin/osascript to run in 32-bit mode. Perhaps by setting an option in Get Info window in Finder as explained in the AppleScript Release Notes listed earlier. (?)
I'm not sure but if Finder cannot do it for commands, you'd need to replace 'osascript' with 'arch -i386 osascript' in the installer script (if it's editable) or let /usr/bin/osascript be wrapped via arch(1) so that it is run in 32-bit mode.
cf.
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/m an1/arch.1.html
Good luck,
H

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