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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Subject: Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:38:08 +0300
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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
>> I would rather optimize by default and disable optimizations with
>> --debug or equivalent.
>
> That assumes that it's simply an optimization. This is a distinct
> semantic change.

No, tail call optimization doesn't change the behavior of the program,
for the worse anyway.


Marko