Dominic Cooney wrote:

> Tail calling is apparently slow because the activation
> records of the old and new method have to be swapped.
> Conversely, jmp should be quite fast.

I'm lost. What's an "activation record"?

Also, does that swapping you are describing need to be done when one is
calling the same function recursively?

Dejan
www.jelovic.com

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