Does ConsoleWrite() slow down compiled scripts?

[emendelson]

After fifteen years of working in AutoIt, I'm still a beginner, so I have ConsoleWrite() lines all over my scripts to help me find my mistakes. Is it likely that these lines are slowing down my compiled scripts? If so, would it make sense to replace all the ConsoleWrite() lines with

If Not @Compiled Then ConsoleWrite("data")

Or is it better simply to comment out those lines when I have things working correctly?

I'm not sure there's a clear answer to this question, but I hope someone knows a lot more about it than I do.

[Nine]

If you want to check speed there is timerInit and timerDiff that can provide you answers to your questions.  Testing by yourself is the better advise I can personally give you, instead of asking those general questions where nobody can answer without knowing the particular situation.  Of course adding consoleWrite to a compiled GUI script is totally useless.  But checking @compiled versus checking a bool variable like $Debug, is it slower or not, it is up to you to test it in your script and decide what is best for you... 

[emendelson]

Thank you! I didn't know about timerInit and timerDiff (though I should have known about it). I will test this now. Thank you again.

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[junkew]

In tight loops it will allways slow down when writing to console or file.

[emendelson]

@junkew That's very useful to know - thank you. I have a some ConsoleWrite() lines in loops that work through a list of files, and I'll remove those and more. I still haven't done an actual timing test, but hope to do so this week.

[seadoggie01]

If you want to keep the ConsoleWrite lines, but want to maintain speed, you could try building a larger string to print later. I haven't tried this before, but I imagine that it would be faster than repeatedly writing. It's something else to test I guess