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Re: Architecting a return address stack

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Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201204.rodent.frell.theremailer.net>
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> torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen) wrote:
>
>> One possible benefit from a hardware return stack is to execute the
>> continuation after the return concurrently with the call.
>
> This doesn't sound so different from UltraSPARC. Has anybody written a LISP
> or other language to optimise tail recursion in this environment?

It would not make much sense for tail recursion, as there isn't any
continuation to speak of to execute in parallel with the call (nor would
you push any return address).

	Torben

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  Re: Architecting a return address stack torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen) - 2012-04-10 12:23 +0200
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