[Starkit]

[Larry W. Virden]

I guess it doesn't surprise me that a program compiled
with threading and support of 64 bit would run slower.

I suspect that if you tried your test with Tcl by itself,
you'd see very similar results.

You might try with Tcl 8.5a3 and see if you see the same
type of behavior.
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