Hi Jon, On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jon Harrop <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 December 2009 12:58:22 Ben Evans wrote: > > Hi John and group. > > > > Given the new timelines announced for milestone releases for 7, what are > > the chances of getting tail calls back on the table for that release? > > > > If the answer is basically "no chance", then what are the roadblocks? > > > > If it could be done, then what would be required and who could help with > > various stages? > > > > (Apologies if this has been covered recently, pls feel free to point me > at > > a thread - I am rather behind on mail). > > AFAIK Arnold Schwaighofer completed the work a long time ago, implementing > TCO > in OpenJDK, but the problem is that the JVM committee do not want to add > TCO > to JVMs as standard. I assume the reason is simply benefit vs cost: they do > not believe enough people would use TCO to warrant the work it would > require. > I put this question to the group at the Java 7 BOF at Devoxx and Alex Buckley gave an interesting answer - that people basically feel that the patchset is sound, but that what's missing is people prepared to run with it, test it out, report back, etc. If that's the case, then what do people on this group think? Is there enough demand for it for people to commit time to it? It's a long time till Java 8, after all. Charlie: Would you use it for JRuby if it was available? Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en.
