From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2008-12-04T17:39:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20302] Re: Tail recursion?

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 08:45:19AM +0900, Roger Pack wrote:
> is it a compiler directive? [or used to be?]

When writing and compiling C code, you can tell gcc to optimise tail
recursion. But the point here is about Ruby programs which are
tail-recursive; not the Ruby interpreter itself being tail-recursive (which
I very much doubt is the case)