Charles, I understand your challenge but it is not at all clear why tail calls would be required. They might be elegant but not necessary.
Cheers - AJ On 2 September 2012 17:35, Charles Oliver Nutter <head...@headius.com>wrote: > The classfile limit is only part of the problem. In JRuby we frequently > have larger Ruby methods fall over in the compilation process because > Hotspot bails out on the whole thing. If we could easily break it up, we > would at least get things to compile, even if they needed a CALL here and > there to stitch the bits together. But except for trivial cases (chaining > along root statements) we need tail calls for this to work well. > > - Charlie (mobile) > On Sep 1, 2012 6:31 PM, "Mark Roos" <mr...@roos.com> wrote: > >> I am looking to learn something here that I haven't seen in my code yet. >> >> John mentioned >> Suppose you are compiling your favorite high-level language to >> the JVM, and you start >> running into the various size limits in class files >> >> To which there seemed to be some agreement that this was an issue. >> Running over my Smalltalk >> code base my largest method is 12000 bytes with only about a dozen that >> are more than >> 10k bytes. The corresponding class file is 16k bytes ( I only do one >> method + blocks per class file) >> >> So my question is what is causing these mega methods. Is it just an >> artifact of the language being >> implemented or is it from some language side optimization (such as trace >> optimization)? Perhaps >> I am just lucky to not see it yet. >> >> thanks >> mark >> _______________________________________________ >> mlvm-dev mailing list >> mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev >> >> > _______________________________________________ > mlvm-dev mailing list > mlvm-dev@openjdk.java.net > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/mlvm-dev > >
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