Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
Just out of curiosity, has any consideration been given to include proper tail recursion in stackless PyPy. I know this would affect tracebacks, so would be a run time or build option. But given Python's functional features it is a shame to have to consider frame proliferation for even the simplest tail call.
Tail recursion is a fish, Stackless is a bicycle. You might love them both, but they are doing perfectly well, alone. :-) There are considerations of all kinds of optimization. It is even not clear for me if frames need to exist at all, unless you are asking for a traceback. No idea where the journey goes, but I'm quite certain that the JIT compiler will try to remove much more than just tail recursion. cheers - chris -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tismerysoft GmbH : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9A : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 802 86 56 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 30 80 90 57 05 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
