Forum OpenACS Development: Response to How about Apache 2.0?

What version of tclsh are you running from the command line? Is it also 8.3.2? Also, if you use the tcl command time command, you can get better granularity than exec'ing date.

Using a modified version of your test:

time {  
       set counter 0
       while { $counter < 1000000 } {
           incr counter
       } 
} 10

and inside a proc:

proc time_loop_speed {} {
    time {  
           set counter 0
           while { $counter < 1000000 } {
               incr counter
           } 
    } 10
}

I got the following results (P3-500, RH 6.2):

	inline	proc
tclsh 8.3.2	3309115 ms per iteration	2934595 ms per iteration
AOLserver 3.2+ad12, nsd8x	6607447 ms per iteration	5637806 ms per iteration

Of course, it's not really an apples-to-apples comparison because tclsh is not threaded, while nsd8x is.