Thanks for the reply, Jeff! That explains a few things. If the allocator modification is made to the Tcl core, will the AOLServer distribution be changed to link to the system Tcl lib's in a conventional manner? (eg, instead of including the modified? Tcl source and building from AOLServer's code tree). That would be very, *very* convenient.
thomas --- Jeffrey Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas, > > The Tcl sources require a minor change before you can have it work > with > AOLServer. The guys at AOL developed a special allocator designed > for > much better performance with threads. I do plan on putting this into > the core (now that license issues are resolved), but it needs a bit > more > time because the current version (in the AOLServer head) only works > on > Unix. Once that is addressed, 8.4 (and likely a backport for 8.3.5) > will work fine "out-of-the-box". > > I guess it would actually work now, but without the enhanced > allocator, > the performance would be unsatisfactory. > > Jeff Hobbs The Tcl Guy > Senior Developer http://www.ActiveState.com/ > > > Has anybody built AOLServer using Tcl8.4a4? If so, any > > comments/problems? > > > > I'm interested in trying this out. I was just wondering if anybody > has > > already modified the Makefiles and header files, before I started > > hacking them together myself. > > > > If nobody has done it, I'd be happy to try it out and post my > > modifications. Please let me know. > > > > Best regards, > > thomas park __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
