[George Peter Staplin]: July 13, 2004 - Tcl 9.0 feels like something just beyond the grasp of reality.  There are many ideas for what needs to be done, but most ideas from what I've seen aren't being actively worked on.  I can't blame anybody for that though.  We work on what we want to -- Tcl is free after all.

I've talked with [Joe Mistachkin] about [JIT] for Tcl 9.0.  I've come to realize it's quite a bit more complex than my JIT for [Forth], because of Tcl being so dynamic.  I'm actively working on a prototype design.

[Salvatore Sanfilippo] and I talked about BigNum support.  He even has some C code that implements such a thing.  There is also: [Proper integers for Tcl 8.5 or 9.0] and [Proper integers implementation].  There are several existing packages that already implement BigNums, but one has a license restriction (GPL/LGPL) and the other uses strings and I've been told/read is much slower than native CPU integer operations.

   * [Tcl 9.0 Wishlist]
   * [Tk 9.0 Wishlist]
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