From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: Troels Nielsen <bn.troels@gmail.com>,
Chris Gray <chrismgray@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tail-call elimination
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:13:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwqwo8vy1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ehiwzm7e.fsf@iznogoud.viz> (Wolfgang Jenkner's message of "Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:30:23 +0100")
>>>> I have attached a patch that implements tail-call elimination for
>>>> a subset of emacs lisp. This will be helpful in allowing coding
>>>> styles which emphasize tail recursion, such as is usual in languages
>>>> like Scheme.
>> If it speeds up execution, I think it can be worth the trouble.
> What about Troels Nielsen's implementation of the same feature?
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/153399
Very nice attempt as well, indeed.
Not sure why he hasn't followed up on this.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-11 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-11 2:57 tail-call elimination Chris Gray
2012-12-11 3:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-11 6:13 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-12-11 6:45 ` Chris Gray
2012-12-11 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-11 14:30 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-11 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-12-31 18:16 ` Chris Gray
2013-01-07 18:28 ` Stefan Monnier
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