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In the "Ask for Help" section we found out that faster Computers may not neccessary compile AHK-code faster.

We found the same script to be compiled on a
700Mhz-P3-256MB-Computer in 2163 milliseconds and on a
2GHz-P4-512MB-Computer in 11750 milliseconds.
Chris said:
Therfore Chris was so kind to provide us with 2 more compilers:
(removed, obsolete)

I made this little script to easily test the performance of the different compilers:

You need to copy the two new compilers in the compiler-folder of ahk, to make the script work. Then you´re ready to choose your weapon of choice


I have compiled the following test-script on my Computer (700Mhz-P3 256MB) to give you a reference:


Please post your result for compiling the above script, too.

Compiling the same test script produced



This was an intel core 2 running at 2 gig

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It must require the latest version of Autohotkey because I couldn't get it to work properly at first. (it would only give the first result)



AMD Sempron 2600+

1gb memory

Here is my result:



Pentium 4 3.0Ghz

Very strange how much variance you guys are getting... My results were:
They all seem fairly much the same.

Athlon XP 3000+
1 GB RAM
Vista

Edit: Looks like Vista's caching something. I ran the test again, on a much larger (~600 lines vs 4 lines) script, and all the results were in the 950-1050 ms range. Looking closer at your results, the difference seems to be in UPX/no UPX. Strange that UPX makes very little difference to mine...

How big should the resulting exes for that 4-line test script be?

Edit2: Err.. there's no size difference between the UPX/no UPX exes.

Edit3: Okay, this is weird. I tried manually compressing the .exes with upx, and it fails because they're "already packed by UPX" - even the "without UPX" exes!

They're all 196 KB.

This is indeed weird,
on my machine the upx-compressed testfiles are 196KB and the non-compressed are 399KB.

mine were the same on my XP computer at work. I will try my home Vista machine.

Edit:
I get some funny error about it not being able to find "C:\iLib", but only on the special AHK2Exe files.

Edit2:
Once I created the file (empty), I was able to get this


AMD Turion 64bit dual core with 2GB ram on Vista (32 bit). Tested in battery saver mode (0.8Ghz)

At full speed (1.8GHz), I get:

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Athlon XP 2800+
512 MB RAM
Win2k

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OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 12 GenuineIntel ~1828 Mhz
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 12 GenuineIntel ~1828 Mhz
Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB

(Dual Core)

Was not on AC Power.


Same Machine On AC Power

AMD Sempron 1.4Ghz / 256MB Ram / Win XP SP2

Interesting... Out of curiousity, what's the purpose of trying to speed up the compiling process (which isn't really "compiling" per se...) ?

mostly this was a test since it was REALLY slow on someone's PC.

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Well, it started in the help-section where someone complained about the long "compiling"-time.
As far as I know, there is (or better was) no hint in the documentation or the forum how long it normaly takes to "compile" a script.
So i made the script, to give kind of a reference on how long it takes.
The rest was pure curiosity

Thanks for the results. I'll put the favor-fast-code optimization into effect in the next release because it's slightly faster for most people, and (ironically) smaller in code size than the original favor-small-code version.