I do not think that this is the problem, really. I mean, not the creation or disposal of *that* objects. The problem, if any, is in the Tcl_FS* calls which do quite a bit of "arithmetic" to fiddle with the internal path reps and stuff. It is this part that *may* hit you. Again, if you have a test-bed where you can tweak things, we can isolate that couple of places (all are in fastpath.c) and rewrite them for "regular" open/read/close and see if that makes any change in the test (I doubt, but you never know).
Ok, i will play with fastpath -- Vlad Seryakov 571 262-8608 office [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crystalballinc.com/vlad/
