Tail/Non tail recursion

Bjorn Gustavsson bjorn@REDACTED
Fri Aug 29 15:32:44 CEST 2003


"Peter Lund" <peter@REDACTED> writes:

> Yes, this is what I meant even if I failed to write that into plain
> language. I have a faint memory from several years ago, that there
> was a compiler optimization for exactly this type of non-recursive
> calls, that in fact made it behave like a tail-recursive function.
> Maybe someone that KNOWS can tell us if anything like this exist.
> 
> /Peter
> 

No, there is no such optimization in Beam.

/Bjorn


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