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


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