From: forum@x9c.fr
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] OCaml-Java project: 1.0 release
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 09:26:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211873192.483bb7a8d5597@imp.ovh.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d3ec8300805262337o6cb390f0ma986212e065132d6@mail.gmail.com>
Selon Till Varoquaux <till.varoquaux@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 May 2008 06:46:23 forum@x9c.fr wrote:
> > 4. Are tail calls fully implemented and, if not, when exactly do they work?
> One cannot fully implement tail calls on the JVM: there's no such
> thing as a goto or a tail call instruction.
> Tail recursion can usually be done for cheap. The general requires
> some expensive machinery (usually trampolines)
Well, to be precise the JVM provides a "goto" instruction, albeit limited
to offsets in the same method. This allows to easily implement tail calls
for direct recursion (and this is done in OCaml-Java).
Can you explain what you mean by "trampoline" in the Java/JVM context ?
Xavier Clerc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-27 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-27 5:46 forum
2008-05-27 6:06 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-05-27 6:37 ` Till Varoquaux
2008-05-27 7:01 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-27 7:57 ` Till Varoquaux
2008-05-27 7:26 ` forum [this message]
2008-05-27 8:36 ` Till Varoquaux
2008-05-27 17:59 ` Florian Weimer
2008-05-27 18:57 ` forum
2008-05-27 7:23 ` forum
2008-05-27 9:12 ` Richard Jones
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