Re: Tail recursion in object systems

mac@coos.dartmouth.edu (Milton A. Colvin)
Sat, 27 Feb 1993 17:11:43 GMT

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From: mac@coos.dartmouth.edu (Milton A. Colvin)
Keywords: OOP, optimize
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
References: 93-02-150
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 17:11:43 GMT

A note on this subject: the Mentat large-grain dataflow system implemented
message passing RPC, but by something like continuation passing. The
sender passes a forwarding address for the result, not necessarily back to
the sender. This allows tail-recursion optimization.
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