Re: inling/tail recursion, recursive decent parser

Ronny Wichers Schreur <ronny@cs.ru.nl>
2 Jul 2005 20:24:46 -0400

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From: Ronny Wichers Schreur <ronny@cs.ru.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 2 Jul 2005 20:24:46 -0400
Organization: Radboud University Nijmegen
References: 05-06-100 05-06-144
Keywords: Java, optimize
Posted-Date: 02 Jul 2005 20:24:46 EDT

diablovision writes (to comp.compilers):


> [..] Java's exception model (i.e. the availability of a stack trace)
> makes it basically impossible to do tail recursion elimination,
> either by Javac or by the VM.


But see "A Tail-Recursive Machine with Stack Inspection", Clements,
Felleisen, Transactions on Programming Langugages and Systems (TOPLAS,
November 2004), available from
          <http://www.brinckerhoff.org/JBCsite/papers/index.html>




Cheers,


Ronny Wichers Schreur



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