RE: [tcltk-perl] changes to Tcl and Tcl::Tk

[Jeff H. <je...@Ac...>]

> > I implemented the changes to Tcl so that Tcl::icall now uses Tcl's 
> > unknown (AUTOLOAD) mechanism properly and kept the old version as 
> > Tcl::invoke (not directly used anywhere).
> 
> And you documented this properly... Very nice.
> 
> Do I understand this correctly that Tcl::invoke should be 
> used in simple cases to improve speed?

It would be interesting to see an icall/invoke comparison in
speed if someone wanted to make it.  invoke should be a smidge
faster, but I wouldn't recommend it in general because of the
caveats of usage - the command must exist, and you circumvent
a lot of stuff like command tracing, recursion safety-checks,
and the unknown mechanism.

Jeff