Re: Proper Tail Recursive C++

ramsdell@linus.mitre.org (John D. Ramsdell)
16 Mar 1997 23:28:50 -0500

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From: ramsdell@linus.mitre.org (John D. Ramsdell)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 16 Mar 1997 23:28:50 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 97-02-111 97-02-131 97-02-141 97-03-042 97-03-048
Keywords: C++, Java, optimize

hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker) writes:
....
> Not at all. Tail recursion is an essential optimization has been
> difficult for non-Lisp languages to implement because they are still
> stuck with the original Algol-60 stack model.


Funny thing is that Java is not stuck with a stack model, yet
implementations of Java are not required to be tail recursive. When
will people ever learn? ... :-(


John
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