Re: java & tail recursion

Tim Becker <tbecker@pironet.com>
17 Apr 2000 11:21:09 -0400

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Re: java & tail recursion tbecker@pironet.com (Tim Becker) (2000-04-17)
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From: Tim Becker <tbecker@pironet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.lang.java.machine
Date: 17 Apr 2000 11:21:09 -0400
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References: 00-04-066 00-04-114
Keywords: Java, performance

> Thorsten Altenkirch <alti@tcs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> writes
> > Can anybody tell me whether there are any java compilers which do tail
> > recursion optimisation.


Thomas Johnsson wrote:
> There was an overview article about
> this JIT in IBM Systems Journal, vol 39, no 1, 2000 (the entire issue
> is about Java, available on the web somewhere, I forgot exactly where,
> presumably on some IBM page) It isn't clear if general tail calls are
> supported (My guess is that they might if inlining happens to turn it
> into the *tail recursion* case).


Here's the URL:


http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj39-1.html


The artical you refered to is:


Overview of the IBM Java Just-in-Time Compiler
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/391/suganuma.html


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