to Include or Not to Include?

[Shaun Burdick]

I am working on a program and I want to be as effecient and cost effective as possible. I am trying to trim down memory usage and file size and I have a question about the way AutoIT handles includes and unused variables.

I include <GUIConstants.au3> for a window I create. Now I use 4 constant variables in that file, once, in a function. I looked at the file and it contains 100+ variables that are declared globally.

My question would be, would it be more cost effective to copy the 4 variables out and make them local to the function or even hardcode them in the GUICreate call, or does AutoIT ignore unused variables?

[MHz]

You can use a Constants Generator.

Extra declared Constants will be in memory if include whole file. The filesize of a compiled script would save a few kilobytes for including only what constants are needed.