** Summary **

Various ideas have been proposed and systems introduced in an attempt to
improve Tcl perfomance via some kind of script compilation.  This pages exists
to enumerate and organize those ideas.


** See Also **

   [bytecode]:   

   [A Tcl Compiler Idea]:   

   [JIT]:   

   [OttoCompiler]:   a Tcl compiler that may or may not be what it claims to be



** Tcl Bytecode **

Since version 8.4, Tcl has featured the ability to automatically translate
scripts into [bytecode] where feasible, and, for the most part, script authors
don't have to do anything particularly special to take advantage of it.
[apply%|%Lambdas] and [proc%|%procedures] are automatically translated to
bytecode, and where feasible, so are arguments to [expr]-like commands such as
[if], [while], and [expr] itself.