From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA17639; Wed, 22 May 2002 18:47:34 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA08537 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 18:47:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.25.148.40]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g4MGlV119333 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 18:47:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id g4MGlOXt028880; Thu, 23 May 2002 02:47:24 +1000 (EST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (ppp45.dyn17.pacific.net.au [61.8.17.45]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id CAA11095; Thu, 23 May 2002 02:47:23 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3CEBCB9A.6070800@ozemail.com.au> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 02:47:22 +1000 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Noel Welsh CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Tail recursion detection References: <20020522124440.87021.qmail@web11208.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Noel Welsh wrote: >I think you're confusing tail calls with closure >conversion. > Yes. Seems to me that there's no point detecting tail calls if you don't achieve constant storage overhead, so I identified the two concepts. Sorry, my mistake. >Closure conversion determines which >closures can stack allocated, done away with, or must >be heap allocated. There are simple ways and complex >way to do this. > Yes. What I need is something that will "undo" some of my syntactic sugaring. If it is too hard, I will be forced to complicate the compiler by adding extra terms to retain the required information (which is don't like much, since I just eliminated them .. :) Thanks for the references! -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners