Hi Jeff - thanks, I didn't know that top-level stuff wasn't compiled. I might give the benchmark another try this weekend, when I have some time to setup an 8.X server on a test machine.
Jim > I would *not* expect this code to gain any speed. The main mantra > of Tcl programming for performance is to use procs. Code in the > toplevel namespace is *not* compiled, which includes that 'while' > loop above. The philosophy is that it will only get run once, > which is sort of a trip-up since 'while' runs "once", but of course > iterates many times for itself. Try this instead: -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
