[Python-Dev] Proper tail recursion (original) (raw)

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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