Re: Tcl/Lisp/Python: A "User" point of view

Wayne A. Christopher (faustus@remarque.berkeley.edu)
30 Sep 1994 01:41:28 GMT

In article <36cafa$5ue@btree.brooktree.com>,
Matt DiMeo <mdimeo@brooktree.com> wrote:
>tst.tcl------------------
>set l ""
>for { set i 0 } { $i < 10000 } { incr i } {
> lvarpush l $i
>}
>{/home/mdimeo}% /bin/time tcl tst.tcl
>^CCommand terminated abnormally.
> 334.2 real 326.7 user 0.2 sys

I don't know how you got these numbers, but I tried it with lappend:

tst.tcl------------------
set l ""
for { set i 0 } { $i < 10000 } { incr i } {
lappend l $i
}
puts "length of l is [llength $l]"

% time tclsh tst.tcl
length of l is 10000
2.1u 0.0s 0:02 94%

Wayne