From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-03-18T19:49:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Maximum stack depth

B. K. Oxley (binkley) ha scritto:
> Glenn Parker wrote:
> 
>> It would be useful to have a Ruby command-line option to specify a 
>> larger limit on stack depth.  I can't find any obvious way, short of 
>> manipulating the source, to do this.
> 
> 
> Does Ruby not do tail recursion optimization?  That would remove any 
> limit to the stack depth for functions such as Ackerman.

notice that yarv handles this just fine:
C:\yarv>ruby19 -rite ack.rb
8189

and it should support TCO (koichi said he wants to run scheme on yarv, 
so this would be mandatory), but I think it does not do this yet.
So, if yarv becomes the ruby2 vm this would be yes :)