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Can anybody enlighten me as to the interpretation approach adopted by AHK? Referring to this discrimination, please don't tell me it falls into category #1.

My motivation for raising this question is grounded in a usage-specific interest in algorithmic efficiency. Having come to learn about these numbers [under the heading "Comparing Languages" towards the bottom], I shivered. Good God, GCC 3.2.3 compiled C code runs 26x while Ruby's evaluates a single time. JavaScript in FF1 was fiftyfold slower than the aforementioned benchmark.

Am I vainly fighting for milliseconds by considering which condition to evaluate first in an if statement given a short-circuit evaluation strategy?

I think it depends on what you're doing. From another page on that guy's site:


AHK is plenty fast for what I use it for (the standard "different tools for different tasks" argument).

Edit: it can't actually be true that Visual Basic .NET is faster than C for those benchmarks, can it?

Hello,

I rather give an example than try to understand what exactly you are looking for. Just yesterday I benchmarked My C#-HelloWorld against AHK.
The code was

for AHK and analog for C#.

C# __5'200 ms
AHK 457'190 ms
Factor: *88

Unfortunately it takes several hundred ms to call a C#-tool via AHK (using CMDret), otherwise I would outsource some calculations on a broader scale.

OK, I'll answer the question posed. Category 2. Faster than a simple interpreter but not nearly as fast as compiled or JIT compiled code.