On Jan 8, 2017, at 6:06 AM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote: > Out of pure curiosity: what's the overhead incurred by using options > variables as simple boolean state variables that are probably set only once > but possibly read many times, compared to native Tcl variables? > > I'm thinking in terms of cumulative effect on iterative or recursive > operations like portindex and dependency calculations. > > Same thing with `[tbool foo]` instead of `[info exists foo] && ${foo}`: is > there a significant overhead in Tcl in moving (frequent) operations to a > procedure?
I don't know, why don't you build a simple benchmark, test it, and report back with your results? -- Daniel J. Luke
