I do think I remember that (I've been subscribed to the list since
2009-01-21), this was mostly an attempt to see how far it would go (and to
get my brain wired for the MethodHandle API).
However, are the discounted code size budgets the only reason why the
MethodHandle 'loop' can recurse 2x to 6x
This actually came up early this past summer, when I tried to do the
same thing (after Ola Bini showed me the MutableCallSite invoker
trick. You can probably find the thread in July some time.
The bottom line was that even if the handles could get folded into
tail recursion, the call site ends up
