Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 15/07/2015 10:13, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>> I'm still interested in the explicit "replace current stack frame with
>> this call" operation. Calling it "goto" seems wrong, as most languages
>> with goto restrict it to _within_ a function,
>
> This just suggests to me is that most language designers
> are not very imaginative. :-)
>
> A tail call *is* a goto. That's how you implement one in
> assembly language -- you write a jump instruction instead
> of a call instruction. The jump doesn't have to be to
> the same function.
>

IIRC the realms of the C setjmp and longjmp.  I'm just wondering out 
aloud if anybody has ever tried playing with cPython using these, or 
whether the code and/or Python itself is just too complex to allow this 
to even be tried, let alone succeed.

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Mark Lawrence