[MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #528: Improve Tail Call Elimination

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#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 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/ObjectOrientedTailRecursion.

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