Those are strange numbers, ns_cache shouldn't matter as you are running the only once. It should be compiled then ran than the bytecodes tossed if you're not running ns_cache. If you are, the same except the bytecodes aren't tossed.
You are right about procs in your tcl library.
At least this shows some improvement over Tcl7.
It is very strange that tcl from the shell should be so much faster. I'd encourage you to show these numbers in the opennsd.org forum and see if anyone has any ideas. You might e-mail Rob Mayoff directly to see if he has any insight he could share with us.
