Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 15:22:18 04/12/04
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On April 11, 2004 at 17:05:00, Dan Andersson wrote: > Any reasonable one should. But since C/C++ have serious holes in their type >systems amongst other shorcomings it is usually in a limited form. There have >been proposals of a special tail_call form. > Earlier GCC (old 2.x branch) only performed it at the the front end. And only >with an explicit return. Mutual recursion was also a hindrance. > As an aside I believe that the MS C# doesn't do tail call optimizations. I was reading some benchmarks in a newsgroup suggesting that C# is even slower than Java. So, as far as optimizations go, don't count on it :) > >MvH Dan Andersson
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