Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Not since about Tcl 8.0.
> You're right, not Tcl's fault. Noone changed PL/Tcl to use it
> though. It still does Tcl_CreateCommand(), which is the
> backward compatibility pure string interface wrapping
> technology. :-)
I could be mistaken, but I thought Tcl would still reduce the function
text to bytecode behind-the-scenes.
We are losing with unnecessary text conversions in a number of places in
pltcl, but I think it's just in parameter passing at pltcl function
entry/exit and calls to the special Tcl commands provided by pltcl.
If you're executing regular Tcl commands inside a pltcl function,
I think you still will get benefit from Tcl 8's speedups.
regards, tom lane
