Vsevolod Lobko writes:
> > Is there a way to make this automatically enabled based on the TCL
> > version? Does that make sense?
>
> This adds significant overhead to pl/tcl calls :((
> so I'm not sure that anybody want this functionality enabled by default
It is my understanding that Tcl 8.3 will not work with 8 bit characters
without this functionality. That would simply be unacceptable. If users
want better performance they should use a different Tcl version, but we
should not override Tcl's design decisions unilaterally.
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