Remapping with and without Send (which is better for performance?)

[john_c]

We can use two different ways for simple remappings. First:

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Tab:: ^Tab

Or second:

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SendMode, Input
Tab:: Send, ^{Tab}

Which one is better for performance?

[Nextron]

I'd doubt performance it an issue here. I'd first start by determining which behavior you require, because these scripts do different things (The first is a remapping, the second is a hotkey). For example, pressing Shift+Tab will output Ctrl+Shift+Tab in the first script, but the second script won't be triggered, resulting in unaltered output.

[Helgef]

Hello.
From the documentation,

a::b actually contains the following two hotkeys instead:

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*a::
SetKeyDelay -1   ; If the destination key is a mouse button, SetMouseDelay is used instead.
Send {Blind}{b DownTemp}  ; DownTemp is like Down except that other Send commands in the script won't assume "b" should stay down during their Send.
return

*a up::
SetKeyDelay -1  ; See note below for why press-duration is not specified with either of these SetKeyDelays.
Send {Blind}{b Up}
return

Note, the remapping uses the scripts default sendmode, as set in the auto-execute section.