[fpc-devel] Tail recursion optimization

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Tue, 10 Oct 2006, schreef Vinzent Hoefler:

> On Tuesday 10 October 2006 08:29, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> > Dani=EBl Mantione wrote:
> > > Op Tue, 10 Oct 2006, schreef Florian Klaempfl:
> > >> Yesterday, I've implemented tail recursion optimization
> > >> (http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk/compiler/opttail.pas
> > >> resulting in
> > >> http://www.hu.freepascal.org/fpcircbot/cgipastebin?msgid=3D158 pp11
> > >> is the new compiler, fpc11 the old, both are 2.1.1).
> > >
> > > Wow!
> >
> > Well, it's use for real world applications is limited
> =

> Limited to what? Binary tree data structures only? ;)

Well, I think the answer is here that any programmer that focuses on =

performance will already remove recursions manually. However, users =

compare compilers using benchmarks, so having optimizations for those =

makes sense.

Dani=EBl