Question about Variable Name Length and Storage in UHK Smart Macros

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Hi everyone,

I’m new to UHK smart macros and have a quick question about variable naming conventions and storage space.

I’m wondering about the internal storage impact of variable names. For example:

setVar stopJiggler 0 vs. setVar s 0.

Does using a longer variable name (like ‘stopJiggler’) consume more internal storage compared to a shorter name (like ‘s’)? If shorter variable names do save space, I’ll adopt this practice in my future macros.

Would appreciate any insights from experienced UHK users.

Thanks!

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Macros are stored in plain text in the serialized UserConfiguration, so yes, they use more of the user configuration space.

(However, they don’t consume additional RAM - they are treated as string references intocthe config buffer.)

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Thanks for the clarification.