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- From: gjr@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Guillermo J. Rozas)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: No Last Call Optimization on Sparc and DECstation
- Date: 2 Jan 93 08:01:44
- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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- Message-ID: <GJR.93Jan2080144@chamarti.ai.mit.edu>
- References: <1992Dec30.094352.4243@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk>
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- In-reply-to: bmtong@cs.cuhk.hk's message of Wed, 30 Dec 1992 09:43:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.094352.4243@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk> bmtong@cs.cuhk.hk (Tong Bo-Ming) writes:
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- It is a sad thing to notice that such a nice optimization is not
- implemented in languages other than Prolog and on RISC architectures.
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- Proper tail recursion is a semantic requirement of Scheme (and I think
- ML), thus compilers for these languages have to implement this
- "optimization".
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