2011-12-13  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	*
	* Released and tagged Tcllib 1.14 ========================
	* 

2011-01-24  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	*
	* Released and tagged Tcllib 1.13 ========================
	* 

2009-12-07  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	*
	* Released and tagged Tcllib 1.12 ========================
	* 

2008-12-12  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	*
	* Released and tagged Tcllib 1.11.1 ========================
	* 

2008-10-16  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	*
	* Released and tagged Tcllib 1.11 ========================
	* 

2008-10-07  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	* bench.tcl: Bumped to version 0.4 for 2008-06-30 commit by
	* bench.man: myself. Was a major rewrite of the internals,
	* pkgIndex.tcl: should have been bumped then.

2008-06-30  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* bench.tcl (::bench::Invoke): Reworked the protocol between
	* libbench.tcl: manager and execution system to allow for
	  incremental returning of results and proper progress
	  feedback. This enables users to see how a benchmark progresses,
	  and to provide their own notes about conditions and decisions as
	  well.

2007-09-12  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	*
	* Released and tagged Tcllib 1.10 ========================
	* 

2007-08-23  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* bench.tcl: Fixed problem with the glob patterns used to query
	* bench.man: the data array, was not matching the list quoting
	* pkgIndex.tcl: used to generate the keys. Was fine while we had
	  no keys with spaces in the interp reference, but with -pkgdir
	  this is possible, and broke. Version bumped to 0.3.1. Reported
	  by Rolf Ade.

2007-08-21  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* bench.tcl (::bench::run): Extended with a new option -pkgdir
	* bench.man: helping in the handling of multiple versions of a
	* pkgIndex.tcl: package to benchmark, as suggested and first
	* libbench.tcl: implemented by Rolf Ade. Moved invokation of
	  libbench to a separate helper procedure. Extended the
	  documentation. Version bumped to 0.3.

2007-04-10  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	* bench_lang_intro.man: New files, documentation of the
	* bench_lang_spec.man: benchmark declaration language, and
	* bench_read.man: of the supporting packages.
	* bench_wcsv.man:
	* bench_wtext.man:

2007-01-22  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	* libbench.tcl: Added new benchmark options -ipre, -ipost. Per
	* pkgIndex.tcl: iteration pre/post scripts, untimed. Version of
	* bench.cl:     package 'bench' is now 0.2.

2007-01-21  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	* bench_wcsv.tcl: Fixed sorting of descriptions in text and
	* bench_wtext.tcl: csv output. Version is now 0.1.2.

2007-01-18  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	* bench.tcl (bench::norm): Removed 'split ,' from code, was left
	* pkgIndex.tcl: in wrongly after the rewrite of the raw
	  representation. The relevant key is a list which we can and have
	  to use directly, no split required. The fixed bug caused the
	  normalization to fail and return the empty string for all
	  cells. Version number bumped to 0.1.1 for this.

2006-10-03  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	*
	* Released and tagged Tcllib 1.9 ========================
	* 

2006-06-13  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>

	* bench_read.tcl:  Rewrite the internal raw representation, use
	* bench.tcl:       lists as array keys, easier to handle, no
	* bench_wcsv.tcl:  splitting, and quoting is done automatically
	* bench_wtext.tcl: by Tcl itself. See [Tcllib SF Bug 1414159].

2006-05-27  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	* bench_read.tcl: Fixed typo "-error" --> "-code error".

2006-01-25  Michael Schlenker <mic42@users.sourceforge.net>

	* bench_wcsv.tcl : Fixed bug when trying to format benchs on windows.
	* bench_wtext.tcl: The interpreter path was truncated due to a misuse of
	split and lindex, where string first was appropriate.

2005-10-27  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>

	* bench.tcl (::bench::norm): Fixed bug leaving time data in
	  non-reference column when the reference is empty. To the unwary
	  the result looks like factors, which have ridiculous values. Now
	  the row is shown, but empty.

2005-10-21  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>

	* bench.tcl (::bench::del): New command. Removal of a column from
	  benchmark data.

2005-10-18  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>

	* bench_read.tcl: New file. Command and package to read benchmark
	  data in the text, csv, or raw formats.

	* bench.tcl (::bench::edit): New command. Changes specified
	  interpreter path to user specified value. Needed if we wish to
	  merge data coming from the same interpreter, for different
	  revisions of the package under test.

2005-10-17  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	* Package derived from the original code added to Tcllib.

2004-12-29  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/parse.bench: ensure file size is consistent between interp
	runs with formatted BOUND string.

2004-12-27  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* doc/runbench.1: fix doc for -throwerrors [Bug 1091766]

	* runbench.tcl (getInterps): use exec << instead of echo [Bug 1091764]

2004-12-24  Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* tcl/namespace.bench: new benchmark, measures the cost of calling
	the same global command alternating different namespaces.

2004-12-20  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/array.bench (new): array hash benchmarks

	* tcl/file.bench: fix checkall to operate for tclsh <=8.0

	* tcl/string.bench: fix string match -nocase for tclsh <=8.2

	* runbench.tcl (convertVersion): add -globtclsh -globwish file
	path glob opts (tclsh* and wish* by default).
	Normalize soft-links.

	* normbench.tcl (normalize-text): harden time norm check

2003-08-06  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* normbench.tcl (normalize): correct normalization of new-style
	stats where TclX data is present in output.

2003-02-11  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/list.bench: lsearch -regexp benchmarks

	* tcl/file.bench: updated with more benchmarks

2003-02-08  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/startup.bench: replaced by file benchmarks
	* tcl/file.bench: file benchmarks

2002-11-13  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/regexp.bench: added anchored re tests

	* tcl/klist.bench: allow method filter from command lineinvocation.

	* tcl/list.bench: add lset benchmarks

	* tcl/md5.bench: correct to work with pre-8.2 interps

	* tcl/string.bench: add string growth, remove split benchmarks
	* tcl/split.bench: more split benchmarks

	* runbench.tcl: allow tclsh*/wish* (no version required)

2002-07-24  Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

	* tcl/base64.bench: added the current code from tcllib.
	
2002-06-20  Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

	* tcl/read.bench: modified to actually "use" the data being read
	by setting a local variable. 

2002-06-20  Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

	* tcl/md5.bench: added the faster implementation from tcllib
	
2002-06-12  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/catch.bench: corrected use of string map in toplevel code

	* tcl/expr.bench: corrected use of string repeat in toplevel code

	* tcl/sha1.bench: correct wideint problem for 8.4 in sha1DF

	* tcl/string.bench: corrected string equality checks to use
	different variables (objects)

	* tcl/gccont.bench: new benchmark that does some bioinformatics
	manipulation on dna sequences

2002-06-12  Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

	* tcl/klist.bench:
	* tcl/heapsort.bench: added algorithms using [lset]
	
2002-06-11  Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

	* tcl/regexp.bench: made the bench access the match variables, to
	benchmark also the read access to them.
	* tcl/vars.bench: added a "VAR ref local" benchmark, to be able to
	compare the access times of linked variables to those of local
	variables. 

2002-05-29  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/parse.bench: more complex string parsing benchmark (8.0+)

	* tcl/encoding.bench: start of some encoding benchmarks (8.1+)

	* tcl/expr.bench: added ==/!= expr benchmarks

	* tcl/string.bench: corrected the equality benchmarks to not use
	the same object unless specified.

2002-04-25  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* runbench.tcl:
	* libbench.tcl: added ability to set # threads to use if Thread
	package can be loaded.
	improved -result error checking

	* tcl/base64.bench: verify result of encode/decode

	* tcl/proc.bench: added empty proc benchmarks

	* tcl/list.bench: added LIST concat benchmarks (hartweg)

2002-03-27  Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

	* tcl/catch.bench: modified the catch benchmarks to allow
	comparison with catching non-error exceptions; added new 
	"CATCH except" benchmark.

2002-03-15  Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sourceforge.net>

	* tcl/catch.bench: added benchmark for catch in a body with many
	nested exception ranges.
	
2002-02-22  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/loops.bench: added while 1 benchmark

	* tcl/conditional.bench: added if 1/0 benchmark

2002-02-07  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* runbench.tcl: noted thread option.

	* libbench.tcl: added ability to check result of test

	* tcl/base64.bench: stripped arg stuff out of code to make it work
	in 8.0 as well.

	* tcl/list.bench: corrected list-2.11 to append to simple var.

	* tcl/map.bench: added http mapReply & simple regsubs benchmarks

	* tcl/read.bench: commented out new changing buffersize benchmarks
	as they do weird things to various interp versions.

	* tcl/regexp.bench: added static regexp benchmarks

	* tcl/string.bench: added string first utf benchmarks

	* tcl/vars.bench: corrected namespace usage for pre-8 interps.

2001-09-25  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/string.bench: added exact string match benchmark and fixed
	other string match benchmarks

	* tcl/list.bench: added simple list benchmark

	* tcl/vars.bench: added mset benchmarks

	* libbench.tcl:
	* runbench.tcl: added support for -threads option to try and load
	a thread package and run separate benchmark files simultaneously.

2001-08-29  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/methods.bench:
	* tcl/vars.bench: added some more benchmarks

2001-07-18  Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	* tcl/read.bench: new "read" benchmarks detailing the effect of
	  the buffersize on IO performance. Created to check out the
	  performance patch associated with SF item #427196.

2001-06-19  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/binary.bench: new "binary" benchmarks

	* tcl/string.bench: more random split benchmarks

2001-06-03  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* libbench.tcl: 
	* runbench.tcl: reduced default iterations to 1000 (still quite
	sufficient to remove random noise).

2001-05-31  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/conditional.bench: added switch/if comparison bench.

	* tcl/base64.bench: new benchmark with base64 code (from tcllib).

	* tcl/md5.bench: new benchmark with Libes' md5 (from tcllib).

	* tcl/sha1.bench: new benchmark with a couple of pure tcl sha1
	routines (Libes and Fellows).

2001-05-29  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	* doc/libbench.n:
	* doc/runbench.1:
	* doc/normbench.1: Added documentation of benchmark library and
	  applications.

	* doc: Added documentation directory.

2001-05-22  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* runbench.tcl: corrected error for reporting errors in sourced files

	* tcl/fcopy.bench: made use of bench_tmpfile for more accurate
	data (not skewed by network).

	* libbench.tcl (bench_tmpfile): correctly allow multiple calls to
	bench_tmpfile within one file.

	* normbench.tcl: new file that allows for post-process
	normalization of the benchmark data.
	Corrected last minute code checkin bug.
	Added support for moving left (to higher versions) to normalize
	when the requested version returned non-double data.

	* tcl/libbench.tcl:
	* tcl/runbench.tcl: changed -iterations to be a maximum number for
	timings, to override any larger number the benchmark may set for
	itself.
	Rearranged result format of benchmarks to return data by benchmark
	description.  Benchmarks are now always returned in alphabetical
	order of the benchmark description.
	Changed benchmarks to rerun the interpreter per benchmark file
	instead of sourcing all files into the same interpreter.  This
	reduces any skew related to excessive mem usage or other factors
	that may arise for one benchmark file.
	Changed midpoint numbers to time elapsed calculation.
	Added -normalize option that post-processes the time information
	to normalize against one version as a baseline.
	Changed -errors <bool> to -throwerrors with no arg, and changed
	the default to not throw errors in benchmark files.
	Added version string to verbose run info.

	* tcl/klist.bench: added support for <8.0 to all benchmarks except
	shuffle0, with notably reduced default run iters due to extreme
	slowness of <8.0 interps for these tasks.

	* tcl/string.bench:
	* tcl/regexp.bench: fixed incorrect str-repeat replacement function

2001-05-18  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/string.bench: added <8.0 compatible rev-recursive benchmark,
	fixed non-octal escape in ustring instantiation.

	* tcl/wordcount.bench: added <8.1 compatible benchmarks

	* tcl/methods.bench: return for interps <8.0

2001-05-19  Andreas Kupries  <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

	* tcl/conditional.bench: Changed some descriptions to make them
	  unique and matching to the code.

	* tcl/fcopy.bench: New benchmarks for the [fcopy] command
	  (unsupported0 in older versions of the core).

2001-05-16  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/string.bench: added static string length benchmarks

	* tcl/wordcount.in: 
	* tcl/wordcount.bench: wordcount benchmarks

	* tcl/heapsort.bench: new file with heapsort benchmark
	* tcl/string.bench:
	* tcl/matrix.bench:
	* tcl/regexp.bench: extended benchmarks

2001-05-11  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/string.bench: clarified string reverse benchmarks, added
	more to the string compare benchmarks.

	* tcl/matrix.bench: some new matrix benchmarks.  Basically a seed
	file looking for more.  procs courtesy Sofer.

	* tcl/list.bench: added a list-iter benchmark

	* tcl/klist.bench: reduced default iters in klist.bench.  Accuracy
	seems about the same without the wait...

	* libbench.tcl: 
	* runbench.tcl: added support for -rmatch option (regexp match of
	benchmark description).
	Added MIDPOINT verbose puts for interim time notes.

2001-04-11  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tcl/klist.bench: added shuffle5* from wiki.

2001-03-28  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@activestate.com>

	* tcl/string.bench: fixed str-first proc that had bogus code in it.
	added more split benchmarks for dkf's split improvement in 8.4.
	
	* tk/canvas.bench: expanded item draw benchmarks

2001-03-23    <jeffh@activestate.com>

	* tk/canvas.bench: added simple item draw benchmarks

2001-03-15    <jeffh@activestate.com>

	* tcl/klist.bench: improved non-tclbench data output.

	* runbench.tcl: added more error capturing.

	* tcl/string.bench: fixed calls to string repeat to work with
	<8.1.1 interps.

	* tcl/klist.bench: new file to benchmark various list shuffling
	techniques (from wiki).
	* tcl/methods.bench: new file to benchmark various method
	invocation speeds (petasis).

2000-10-19  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@ajubasolutions.com>

	* tcl/string.bench (str-append-2): added more append tests

2000-08-30  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>

	* tcl/string.bench: made string repeat calls compatible with
	pre-8.1.1 interpreters.

	* libbench.tcl (bench_tmpfile): add env to global list

2000-08-29  Eric Melski  <ericm@ajubasolutions.com>

	* tcl/string.bench: Extended string append benchmarks to exploit
	new growth algorithm for string objects in Tcl 8.4a2.

2000-05-31  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>

	* runbench.tcl: new options -errors (passed to libbench), -verbose
	(by default we are now quieter on output), -output <text|list|csv>
	(different output types - csv is char-sep-value for Excel).
	Added start/finish times (in -verbose mode).
	* libbench.tcl: libbench now takes -option switches for
	flexibility, options for -errors BOOL (error suppression), -interp
	NAME (to specify interp), -match PATTERN (glob pattern to filter
	tests by desc), -iters NUM (default number of iters to run).
	Reorganized how data is returned to runbench master.

	* tk/entry.bench (new):
	* tk/canvas.bench (new): new tests for widget creation, config

	* tcl/array.bench (removed):
	* tcl/vars.bench: merged array.bench tests into VAR

	* tcl/map.bench: fixed for compatability with Tcl7.4-

2000-05-25  Jeff Hobbs  <hobbs@scriptics.com>

	* runbench.tcl: added -match, -notcl, -notk options, restructured
	startup sequence.

	* libbench.tcl: added ability to return string values from bench
	tests and support for filtering tests to run.

	* tcl/string.bench: moved string mapping benchmarks and added more
	string equality benchmarks
	* tcl/map.bench: added extended string mapping benchmark

	* tcl/read.bench:
	* tcl/startup.bench:
	* tk/startup.bench: updated code to reflect proc-oriented tmpfile
	operations.
