tail recursion (was: Equality of Recursive Structures)
Bergel, Alexandre
bergel at iam.unibe.ch
Thu May 17 14:52:47 UTC 2007
> Dan Ingalls said that VM implementors can cheat as long as they don't
> get caught and if you ever get into the debugger you will certainly
> notice the lack of some stack frames and will curse whoever had the
> brilhant idea of eliminating them to get some extra speed.
I would consider myself as having experience with Scheme. Whereas not
creating a stack frame for recursive call reduce memory consumption,
it makes application debugging a much harder task... As far as I have
seen, not creating stack frame causes more problems than it solves...
Alexandre
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