For anyone who missed it, there has been a very interesting development in JVM land. Arnold Schwaighofer claims to have the first working implementation of tail calls on the recently open sourced Hotspot Java compiler:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/mlvm-dev/2009-January/000331.html Given the existence of the OCamlJava project, this should be of great interest to the OCaml community because it might pave the way to even better numerical performance and easier parallelism with simple interop to rich libraries and so forth. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
