From: Charles O Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2006-03-14T05:18:33+09:00
Subject: Re: The benefits of tail recursion

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Someone wanna run a comparison of performance between the two? If
continuations were fast enough, I'd expect it to be faster, but I've heard
they're not as fast as we'd like in Ruby.

On 3/13/06, Pit Capitain <pit@capitain.de> wrote:
>
> Timothy Goddard schrieb:
> > I thought I'd share a useful little trick with the list. I've put
> > together a little library (27 lines for the actual implementation) that
> > can convert any function into a partially tail-recursive function,
> > without any alteration required, using a single command.
> > ...
>
> If you're interested, see ruby-talk:145593 for an implementation with
> throw/catch instead of continuations.
>
> Regards,
> Pit
>
>


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