Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com> writes:
> .... Since Tcl's interface is purely
> string based, everything goes first from internal to string,
> then from string to Tcl's internal and all the way back
> again.
Not since about Tcl 8.0.
> Not easy to estimate who will win here.
Agreed, some hard numbers would be more useful than speculation.
regards, tom lane