eval vs source performance

From: Aamer Akhter (aakhter_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: 27 Mar 2005 22:02:04 -0800

Hello,

Has anybody done studies/have experience in performance differences
between sourcing a file vs. using eval.

The file/eval in my case does not have a huge number of commands, but
there is quite a bit of data stored in script from (ie set a {b c
d...}. The problem I'm trying to solve via the eval is then I can store
the script in a tokenized file that can include metadata about the data
that the script will create in the tcl intrepretor. The other idea is
to have a two file solution one file a tcl sourcable script, and
another file contains the metadata.

Thoughts/Suggestions?

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