Re: Patch for pl/tcl Tcl_ExternalToUtf and Tcl_UtfToExternal support

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Vsevolod Lobko writes:
>
> > > Is there a way to make this automatically enabled based on the TCL
> > > version?  Does that make sense?
> >
> > This adds significant overhead to pl/tcl calls :((
> > so I'm not sure that anybody want this functionality enabled by default
>
> It is my understanding that Tcl 8.3 will not work with 8 bit characters
> without this functionality.  That would simply be unacceptable.  If users

Really - yes.
I can make this automatic based on tcl version if performance penalty on
tcl>=8.3 is acceptable.


> want better performance they should use a different Tcl version, but we
> should not override Tcl's design decisions unilaterally.
>
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> Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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