[Starkit] tclkit sans metakit

[David Welton]

> I think Tom is onto something here - I need the full read/write
> Metakit based Starkits for certain features (e.g. creating them,
> reliably updating them, etc) but in general I don't.

Right... in many cases it's just a nice way of deploying things.
 
> Pending the longer term solution that JCW hinted at, a C-coded
> readkit would allow me to still build on one of the common platforms
> (Linux, OSX + Windows) and deploy everywhere else more easily.

> We could even call it "runkit" :)
 
> Any gun C programmers want to give it a go?

I think that it may be possible to avoid rewriting the whole thing -
what we need to do is to have a look at what proc's are eating up time
and concentrate on them.  From working with the code, I have a few
guesses, but real profiling is better than guessing in these cases:-)

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