On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Leszek Ciesielski <skol...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Yes. Although I prefer not to call it "tail call optimization" but "proper tail calls". An optimization makes programs faster. Proper tail call makes programs work that wouldn't work without it. > If yes, what would be a good place to start? (I'm already > familiar with basics of contributing to Mono) Any suggested readings, > beside articles linked from discussion > http://www.mail-archive.com/mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com/msg21825.html > ? What's been said there still stands - you need a callee-pops-arguments calling convention. That is the biggest piece of the work to get proper tail calls. For an explanation for why you need callee-pops-args, see my diploma thesis: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/diplarb.ps Mark _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list