From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recursion to iteration macro
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:40:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edc11baw.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Zf6vPIYPK66jU0QV@tuxteam.de
tomas wrote:
>>> At least for tail-call recursion, named-let will turn
>>> recursive code into iterative code.
>>>
>>> But generally speaking, if you need to accumulate data on
>>> the stack, then it becomes a lot more difficult.
>>
>> Why is that so difficult, isn't a stack just a list with
>> `push' and `pop'?
>
> Only usually *much* more efficient.
How do you propose the virtual stack be implemented?
The goal is to have recursion syntax but iteration execution
transparently and seamlessly, other than that we will just
make it as efficient as possible.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-23 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-22 22:56 recursion to iteration macro Emanuel Berg
2024-03-23 7:12 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-03-23 10:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-03-23 10:30 ` tomas
2024-03-23 10:40 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2024-03-23 13:25 ` tomas
2024-03-25 23:38 ` Richard Stallman
2024-03-26 5:40 ` tomas
2024-03-28 22:05 ` Richard Stallman
2024-03-29 6:36 ` tomas
2024-03-30 22:37 ` Richard Stallman
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