Tcl Benchmarks README

© Copyright 2000 Laurent Duperval <lduperval@sprint.ca>

Various benchmarks for Tcl.

Version 0.2, April 28, 2000


REQUIREMENTS:

You need Tcl/Tk installed on your system.  Any version from 7.4 and up should
work for running the benchmarks. Of course, I didn't test them all so... I've
tried these on HPUX, Linux and NT and only found a problem with the wish tests
on NT: they don't exit for some reason.

If you want to run the graphical interface, you will need Tk 8.2 installed on
your machine. Otherwise, the benchmarks themselves should work with any
version from Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0. You will also need the BWidget package.

INSTALLATION:

Simply unpack the archive.  To run the benchmarks, source the benchmarks.tcl
file with a Tcl interpreter:

% wish benchmarks.tcl

If you just want to run the benchmarks, us a Tcl interpreter with the
tcl_*.bch files and a Tk interpreter with the wish_*.bch files.

KNOWN PROBLEMS:

- Tk 8.0-based interpreters don't work well on Windows
- The interface freezes while benchmarks are being run
- Doesn't seem to work too well with BWidget 1.2.x
- No error handling

CHANGES:

0.1 Apr 26, 2000 - first released version
0.2 Apr 28, 2000 
  - Added Graphical interface (needs BWidget)
  - Changed the license
		   
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