Re: No Last Call Optimization on Sparc and DECstation

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From: Guillermo J. Rozas
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 08:01

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In article <1992Dec30.094352.4243@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk> bmtong@cs.cuhk.hk (Tong Bo-Ming) writes:

   It is a sad thing to notice that such a nice optimization is not
   implemented in languages other than Prolog and on RISC architectures.

Proper tail recursion is a semantic requirement of Scheme (and I think
ML), thus compilers for these languages have to implement this
"optimization".

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From: gjr@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Guillermo J. Rozas)
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