tcl/tk compiler

Ken Moffat kmoffat
Mon May 17 11:57:22 PDT 2004


Self reply!
I think this may be out of date, sorry.

Ken Moffat wrote:

> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>
>> The compiler is a byte-code compiler. Mainly meant for speed. However,
>> one benefit of the Sun days with Tcl was a JIT compiler.
>
>
> This one, mentioned earlier, won't do what you need?
>
> http://www.icemcfd.com/tcl/ice.html
>
> quote:
> Using the ICE Tcl Compiler, you can take advantage of all of these 
> [tk/tcl] features, and also obtain significantly higher performance, 
> the ability to distribute your Tcl/Tk-based applications as compiled 
> code rather than in source form, and the convenience of having the 
> most popular extensions already integrated and compiled on a variety 
> of platforms.
>
> The compiler translates Tcl code into C code, which can then be 
> compiled together with a special Tcl library to produce a single 
> executable. Alternatively, on most systems it can be compiled into a 
> dynamically loadable module, which can be loaded and run directly by 
> our custom interpreter.
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-- 
Ken





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