[Python-Dev] Proper tail recursion

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Jul 19 19:06:59 CEST 2004


At 12:27 PM 7/19/04 -0400, Chris King wrote:
>Given the proposed changes:
>
>1) make a seperate eval loop that supports tail calls so as not to
>impact performance of normal programs,

Um, no.  Please look at ceval.c before you even consider proposing 
something like that, and then be sure to have a proposal for how you'd 
*maintain* this second eval loop.





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