On Tuesday 27 May 2008 07:37:40 Till Varoquaux wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> > 4. Are tail calls fully implemented and, if not, when exactly do they
> > work?
>
> One cannot fully implement tail calls on the JVM: there's no such
> thing as a goto or a tail call instruction.
> Tail recursion can usually be done for cheap. The general requires
> some expensive machinery (usually trampolines)

What characteristics of tail calls cannot be implemented using trampolines?

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