[TCLCORE] Using our time well

[John O. <ou...@aj...>]

The discussion about string allocation highlights one of the key
problems the Tcl Core Team needs to face, which is how to operate
efficiently.  It was lots of fun arguing the pros and cons of various
schemes, but I don't think that such a detailed discussion was worth
the time.  I doubt that this issue would make it onto anyone's
top-100 list of most important things to worry about in Tcl, yet it
seems to have occupied much of the Team's energy for couple of days.
Was that really the best way to spend our time?

I don't have a simple solution to propose, but we will need to operate
more efficiently than this.

The main thing I would suggest is for everyone to keep the big picture
in mind: what are the *most important* things we can do to enhance Tcl?
Small issues will need to be settled very very quickly  or else we'll
never get to the big issues.  One thought is that for a small issue like
this, if there isn't pretty immediate agreement on what to do then we
should just drop it and leave things as they are.  In this particular
case the problems were mostly theoretical anyhow: how many people have
actually run into issues that would be addressed by any of the proposed
fixes, versus, say, how many people would like a tab notebook widget?

-John-
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