Custom Query (3917 matches)

I wrote an AutoIt script which reads a binary file (about 16000 data points), does some very simple maths (add, multiply) and writes it back. I used _WinAPI_ReadFile/_WinAPI_WriteFile. I noticed that it takes rather long time to do DllStructGetData/DllStructSetData and simple maths in a loop, I think it took about 200 ms for this loop on my pentium 4. By comparison, fortran (g95) is about 100 times faster.

Of course AutoIt has never been intended to do complex maths operations and should not be used for this purpose, but it just occurred to me that if efficient whole array operations (like add, multiply etc and also DllStructGetData and some other functions) were introduced, the speed of many scripts could increase significantly.

Please forgive my ignorance if this makes no sense.

Is there any chance we could have IniRead set @error (or even @extended) when it has to resort to the default value? Maybe something like:

Success: Returns the requested key value. Failure: Returns the default string if requested key not found and sets @error.

@error
1	Filename invalid/does not exist
2	Section invalid/does not exist
3	Key invalid/does not exist

The following presents a problem particularly when using the Execute statement:

$A = 1
$A = $A +++++- 1
MsgBox (0, "Test", "A = " & $A)

No syntax or run-time error is given.