[pypy-dev] Getting involved

John Smith 4u5vjqpb at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 22:57:40 CEST 2014


Yes. But tail-call optimization is a performance optimization, so it goes
well with PyPy. I wanted to suggest to Travis that he not be discouraged
from his idea and give him another idea for getting tail-call more widely
used compared to making his own fork of PyPy.

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:27 PM, John Smith <4u5vjqpb at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > As a less objectionable alternative, what about a package which when
> passed
> > code (string/code object/not sure) returns a newly compiled object with
> tail
> > call optimization?
>
> you can do that in pure python (it does not have to be a part of pypy
> in any sense)
>
> >
> > J
> >
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