id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
643	whole array operations	khimik		"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."	Feature Request	closed		AutoIt		None	Rejected	whole array