> > + ocamlc does perform tail call elimation
> > + ocamlopt does it less often. Namely, calls in tail position
> >   become real tail calls when all their arguments are passed in registers.
> >   (This does not apply to self-tail calls which are always optimized)
> > 
> 
Oups sorry...

In fact you need 7 arguments or more in the callee to
trigger the unoptimized behavior on a pentium (just checked this time).


> 
> What?! Is this true? This effectively means that I cannot count on 
> tail-call elimination in general?

Do not take it that bad. In practice, it does not matter much I guess.

I guess that any ocamlopt back-end passes at least the first six argument in
registers (and six is a lot).

Besides stack grow is a less severe issue in native code than it is in
byte code.  At least in Unix, the process stack may grow to important sizes.


--Luc

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