On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:34 PM, MacRuby <ruby-noreply@macosforge.org> wrote:
#528: Improve Tail Call Elimination
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 Reporter:  haruki.zaemon@…          |       Owner:  lsansonetti@…
    Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  new
 Priority:  minor                    |   Milestone:
Component:  MacRuby                  |    Keywords:  tail call elimination optimisation tco
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Comment(by haruki.zaemon@…):

 I dug a little deeper and apparently LLVM already supports quite
 sophisticated TCO, including mutual recursion. Not sure why that doesn't
 take effect in MacRuby but I assume it's due to the way calls are
 constructed. Anyway, it's now well and truly outside my abilities.

 Thanks,
 Simon


Simon, after reading you blog post on the subject, I feel that you're well
versed on the subject matter of TCO.  Yes, LLVM supports TCO very
well and building languages in general.  I would recommend learning a bit
about LLVM and llvm.org has some excellent documentation.  Also, they
have several resources to receive assistance.  After you feel comfortable
with LLVM, then looking at the problem within the MacRuby would  should
become much easier.

Good luck,

-Conrad
 
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