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MTbot
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| A thousand thank yous, corrupt. The solution and project files you provided easily upgraded to VC++ 2008 Express Edition (Beta 2) with no errors. |
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Titan
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| Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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AutoHotkey builds well on VC08 Express with Vista SDK, all you need to do:
- Do Visual Studio upgrade wizard (choose No for backup)
- Change Debug to Release
- Right click AutoHotkey project then Properties
- Under C/C++ change Treat Warnings As Errors to No
- In Linker > Input remove "LibCMT;" from Ignore Specific Library
- Press F7 to build
I noticed a performance improvement when AutoHotkey was build this way and left uncompressed - as much as 30% faster for the most basic loop and var set test.
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MTbot
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| Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Titan wrote: |
I noticed a performance improvement when AutoHotkey was build this way and left uncompressed - as much as 30% faster for the most basic loop and var set test. |
Forgive my ignorance, but the 30 percent improvement is being compared to what? VC++ 7 build with Vista? 2005 Express build with Vista? Thanks in advance. |
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Titan
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| Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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Compared to the official released, which is also uncompressed.
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corrupt
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:26 am Post subject: |
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| Titan wrote: | | Compared to the official released, which is also uncompressed. |
The official release is uncompressed?? |
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Lexikos
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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| corrupt wrote: | | Titan wrote: | | Compared to the official released, which is also uncompressed. |
The official release is uncompressed?? |
I don't think so. It probably doesn't matter, considering the EXE is decompressed (into memory) before the script starts... right? |
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Titan
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| corrupt wrote: | | The official release is uncompressed?? |
No, I de-upx it after installation to reduce launch times.
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SKAN
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Titan wrote: | | I de-upx it after installation to reduce launch times. |
IIRC, elsewhere in our forum, Mr.Chris quoted that a compressed exe would load faster than an uncompressed one. |
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majkinetor
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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It depends on cluster size, HD fragmentation etc...
It may be faster, especialy on multiple launches, to remove compression, but I doubt its noticable.
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Titan
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Skan wrote: | | IIRC, elsewhere in our forum, Mr.Chris quoted that a compressed exe would load faster than an uncompressed one. |
On another thread dedicated to this I posted a benchmark script with my machine spec and graphs which show that an uncompressed exe launches a lot faster, especially if it were from LZMA. I believe others like Sean do the same, but as maji said it depends on your usage (since UPX does not cache but results in shorter seeks etc.).
One thing for sure is that the MS C++ compiler has improved over the years (although GCC still owns, apparently).
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SKAN
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the clarifications majkinetor / Titan.  |
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corrupt
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 2:34 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for clarifying |
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dandy
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| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| i succesfully compiled the source,but i can only see autohotkey.exe,autohotkeysc.bin is not there,any hints? |
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Oberon
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| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:32 am Post subject: |
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| dandy wrote: | | autohotkeysc.bin is not there |
You need the script compiler source. |
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dandy
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| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:36 am Post subject: |
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hi,
thanks for your reply.
i have the script compiler source too and it compiled ok too,but the files to create autohotkeysc.bin are not there,theres only ahk2exe.exe.
any other tip?
thanks |
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