On 01.12.10 21:31, Tom Jackson wrote:
Personally I also wouldn't assume that AOLserver works perfectly with Tcl8.6.
Me neither, but Tcl 8.6 is still in an early state.
Unless you absolutely need 8.5, I would stick with the latest 8.4 version. For one thing 8.4 is faster than either.
Well, it depends. My recommendation is to use Tcl 8.5. From our experience from running large OpenACS apps (600.000 loc Tcl on our production environment, delivering up to 220 GB/day, up to 2.500+ concurrent users), the performance difference between 8.4 and 8.5 is very little as long one is using just 8.4 functionality. Tcl 8.5 has several improvements to make programs more readably (e.g. the "in" operator in expressions), more safe (e.g. the expand operator) and leads to more stable multi-threaded programs (e.g. c-stack protection, checking stack boundaries instead of plain crashing as in 8.4), provides bignums, and many many more really useful fixes and improvements.
The OpenACS community has decided some time ago to require 8.5 for future releases. >Please don't listen to the Tcl gurus, they are behind the >curve...actually they are actively slowing down the curve. Come on, stop that bashing. Jeff was referring to http://code.activestate.com/lists/tcl-core/9805/ On real problems, the Tcl-core people are very helpful and highly responsive... -gustaf neumann -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <lists...@listserv.aol.com> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
