On Friday 03 April 2009 06:31:38 Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > Jon Harrop wrote: > > You mean if I wanted to tinker with it? Sure, but there is little point > > in me running it if my customers will not. > > So you're really not looking for a solution then, unless it's someone > else (Sun) putting the work in to get it into a release, right?
On the contrary, I am building a new VM from scratch with my own money precisely because I believe this issue is so important. If Sun do the work, I will build commercial products on their platform as well. Otherwise, I'll stick with their competitors. > Perhaps you could offer up an idea or offer your help to make this > happen, since there's already scant resources available. If you cannot get tail calls accepted into the required standard, then release an additional non-standard JVM that includes the existing implementation of tail call elimination (and potentially other useful features). -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jvm-languages+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
