From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: "Till Varoquaux" <till.varoquaux@gmail.com>,
"caml-list" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] OCaml-Java project: 1.0 release
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 08:01:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805270801.39081.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d3ec8300805262337o6cb390f0ma986212e065132d6@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday 27 May 2008 07:37:40 Till Varoquaux wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> 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)
What characteristics of tail calls cannot be implemented using trampolines?
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e
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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 [this message]
2008-05-27 7:57 ` Till Varoquaux
2008-05-27 7:26 ` forum
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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