Hi, I'm not a Mono contributor, just a F# user.
> what is current status of F# tail calls on Mono? I am doing a master > thesis on functional languages in .Net and, for the practical part, I > am planning to improve Mono F# support. Judging from the materials on > the web, Tail Call Optimization is missing from Mono. Is this still > true? There are two bug reports related to F# tail calls: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502575 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476785 In simple cases, the F# compiler is able to replace the tail call by a while loop. When things get a bit more complex, F# compiler emits the .tail opcode. As far as I know, Mono is able to optimize some of them, but it fails in some cases (read file attached in bug 502575 for examples). As you are talking about F# support, I think the Reflection.Emit bug with generics is one of the other main problems. Many programs, even very simple ones, fail in F# Interactive. You see a few examples here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=419828 -- Laurent _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
