2010/12/1 Jeff Hobbs <[email protected]>: > On 01/12/2010 12:31 PM, Tom Jackson wrote: >> >> Personally I also wouldn't assume that AOLserver works perfectly with >> Tcl8.6. Unless you absolutely need 8.5, I would stick with the latest >> 8.4 version. For one thing 8.4 is faster than either. > > That's no longer true.
Not sure what is no longer true. AOLserver is pretty much ahead of Tcl wrt client/server programming (and about 15 year ahead of Java). Tcl 8.6 continues to head into the direction of poor performance and useless new API. In case programmers haven't figured it out, multi-core processors are the norm, so stuff like thread bound coroutines are useless wrt performance and much harder to program than C thread based servers. But if you are stuck in one thread, maybe..."maybe" there is some benefit in moving to Tcl 8.6, unless you are using AOLserver. Please don't listen to the Tcl gurus, they are behind the curve...actually they are actively slowing down the curve. The evidence is simple: 8.4 is faster than 8.5 which is faster than 8.6. How is this even possible? The answer is simple: the developers do no know what they are doing. The evidence is the performance. tom jackson -- 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.
