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| author | donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk <dkf> | 2012-11-20 12:13:43 (GMT) |
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| committer | donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk <dkf> | 2012-11-20 12:13:43 (GMT) |
| commit | 3e55ef9d38f9ad0ce68ab947b51a37b144046100 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/CrtCommand.3 b/doc/CrtCommand.3 index f0a7b43..c921999 100644 --- a/doc/CrtCommand.3 +++ b/doc/CrtCommand.3 @@ -41,18 +41,18 @@ will call \fIproc\fR to process the command. It differs from \fBTcl_CreateObjCommand\fR in that a new string-based command is defined; that is, a command procedure is defined that takes an array of -argument strings instead of objects. -The object-based command procedures registered by \fBTcl_CreateObjCommand\fR +argument strings instead of values. +The value-based command procedures registered by \fBTcl_CreateObjCommand\fR can execute significantly faster than the string-based command procedures defined by \fBTcl_CreateCommand\fR. -This is because they take Tcl objects as arguments -and those objects can retain an internal representation that +This is because they take Tcl values as arguments +and those values can retain an internal representation that can be manipulated more efficiently. -Also, Tcl's interpreter now uses objects internally. +Also, Tcl's interpreter now uses values internally. In order to invoke a string-based command procedure registered by \fBTcl_CreateCommand\fR, it must generate and fetch a string representation -from each argument object before the call. +from each argument value before the call. New commands should be defined using \fBTcl_CreateObjCommand\fR. We support \fBTcl_CreateCommand\fR for backwards compatibility. .PP |
