AutoHotkey Community

1) Because we like to argue!
2) I know the adage "Don't feed the trolls", but people might hesitate between the two tools, and search, and find the above propaganda. So I feel it should be balanced a bit.

BoBo¨, about the "Please tell us three things you don't like about AutoHotKey*. At least one field required."
I frowned on this too, but frankly, there are lot of things I don't like about AutoHotkey (two capitals only...) But I can tell the same about every programming language I know, and even every software I use.
The bias is indeed on the required field, while none is required in the things we like about it...

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_ok, i will not argue with you anymore (it is just useless waste of time because I know AutoIt is better ) so bye and see you (read: f**k you )_

Aaah, so we can say that sometime, i542 is right!

BTW, I rarely see useful waste of time...

Isn't that how those geeks naming AU3's performance ?

Noooooo....

Is this your first time at this forum...

there are so many programming and scripting languages that some of them utterly fall cause of WEAKNESS, come on dont try to hide behind your finger. AutoIt v3 IS BETTER and you know that , you are just not willing to believe it and get a life

Ah, I see I missed interesting conversation with lot of nice ppl.
To bad, your kind is always fun, like watching the monkey.

Guest, i542, MissDirty and your group of "We hate AHK" please continue. Post some more drawings please, those were particulary fun (you definitely choosed wrong proffesion).

We need some fun here after lot of work

When you finish, execute AutoIt "Hello World" script before making your self a coffie.
It will finish just on time when coffie is hot, so you can drink it up and enjoy nice message.

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Is true that AutoIt is very slow when compared to AutoHotkey. I maked a comparative.

Two scripts, that does exactly the same, in the two scripting languages:
AutoHotkey version:

AutoIt version:


At least in one of my computers these are the results:

factor/$factor value: 1000
AutoHotkey: 0 ms
AutoIt: 71 ms

factor/$factor value: 100000
AutoHotkey: 375 ms
AutoIt: 729 ms

factor/$factor value: 10000000
AutoHotkey: 40 sec.
AutoIt: 1 min. 13 sec. I was very tired to wait...

Total:
Time that AutoHotkey is doing tasks: 41 sec.
Time that AutoIt is doing tasks: 1 min. 14 sec.

Conclusion: AutoHotkey is faster

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fincs
Highly recommended: AutoHotkey_L (see why) (all my code snippets require it)
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Get SciTE4AutoHotkey v3.0.00 (Release Candidate)
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@fincs: you are measuring the speed of the built-in random number generators. This is interesting, but hardly representative to the overall speed ratios. There could be other tasks, showing different results. Another example: with a 50 line script based on the pure AHK MP library (no external dll or other files) dividing a random number of one million bits by another random number of half size and returning the ratio and the remainder takes about 2 seconds. Finding 100 digits of pi or sqrt(2) takes just milliseconds. Even though the results are impressive, they are still not representative to typical scripts.

Btw, your script could be written in more compact form, like:In my 2 GHz Centrino laptop the script takes 40ms.

I writed the script implementing a FOR loop, for that I don't have used the parameter of the Loop command. But nice suggestion!

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fincs
Highly recommended: AutoHotkey_L (see why) (all my code snippets require it)
Formal request to polyethene - I support the unity of the AutoHotkey community
Get SciTE4AutoHotkey v3.0.00 (Release Candidate)
[My project list]

Just check out million DllCalls to some system function in both languages and you will feel the difference.

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OK, here is the "Million DllCalls" test:

AutoHotkey version:

AutoIt version:


Time elapsed
AutoHotkey: 39 sec.
AutoIt: 49 sec.

AutoHotkey is still faster

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fincs
Highly recommended: AutoHotkey_L (see why) (all my code snippets require it)
Formal request to polyethene - I support the unity of the AutoHotkey community
Get SciTE4AutoHotkey v3.0.00 (Release Candidate)
[My project list]