[Armedbear-devel] Tail recursion

[Erik Huelsmann]

Hi Ralf,


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Ralf Moeller <moeller at tu-harburg.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> ABCL does not seem to support tail call optimization right now.


That's right. Basically we've inherited that "property" from the JVM: The
Java language disallows tail call optimization in the JVM because it
interferes with security options which walk the stack to determine access
rights of callers.


> Are there any plans to provide this?
>
>
Not at this point, however, I know that there have been work-arounds for
JVM based Scheme implementations, because it's part of the Scheme language
to require TCO; I don't know about the performance consequences, though. If
you want to write portable CL though, you can't depend on TCO: it's not
part of the language definition that the underlying runtime/compiler should
support it.

If anybody has some insights on how to implement TCO efficiently, I don't
see why we would not want to accept code to implement it and support it --
at this time I don't have any plans to implement it personally, though.



Bye,

Erik.

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