Re: Top-level command invokations not compiled

On Aug 27, 2:08 pm, Googie <n...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

There are many places where the following note is mentioned:

"Top-level invokations of commands are not byte-compiled, so be aware to put
most of them into procedure(s), so they run faster." -...or something like
that.

Well, why aren't they compiled? What is the reason to aviod compiling them?

Because since they are toplevel they will run just once, hence the
cost of compiling them will not be diluted over several runs of the
bytecode. See Miguel's recent summary on this:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/tree/browse_frm/thread/d82038ee84b6af25/1fa41def63fa5bfc?hl=en&rnum=31&q=ferrieux+junking&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.lang.tcl%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2Fd82038ee84b6af25%3Fhl%3Den%26tvc%3D1%26q%3Dferrieux%2Bjunking%26safe%3Dimages%26#doc_181bafa752a80104

-Alex
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