From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-06-16T23:57:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and recursion (Ackermann benchmark)

Pit Capitain <pit@capitain.de> writes:

> Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> The real question is why the Ruby interpreter doesn't do tail-call
>> optimization...
>
> The interpreter doesn't do this automatically. You have to tell him :-)

I know that, but there is no reason it couldn't... while your code
surely is a nice hack, it's nowhere close to the real thing.

> Note that this is just a proof of concept and hasn't been tested thoroughly.
>
> Regards,
> Pit
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