#528: Improve Tail Call Elimination -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Reporter: haruki.zaemon@… | Owner: lsansonetti@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: MacRuby | Keywords: tail call elimination optimisation tco -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Comment(by jvoorhis@…): Replying to [comment:3 haruki.zaemon@…]:
I'm not worried about wasteful calls. Recursively descending through a large data structure is the problem.
+1 Guy Steele made a good argument for supporting mutually recursive method calls for the same reason at http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/blog/ObjectOrientedTailRec.... -- Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/528#comment:4> MacRuby <http://macruby.org/>