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Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE)

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Date Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:55:48 +1000
Subject Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE)
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:
>
>> Done explicitly like this, it avoids the problem of bad tracebacks,
>> because by definition you would use it only when you want the current
>> stack frame to be dropped. I wonder how hard it would be to hack this
>> into CPython... Anyone feel like tackling it?
>
> 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. Would you, for instance, want all of your arithmetic
to be rounded to integer because integers are faster - and then
disable this "optimization" with a flag that permits floating-point
arithmetic? Certainly not.

ChrisA

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Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-14 00:05 +1000
  Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-14 13:20 +1000
    Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-14 09:26 +0200
    Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-07-14 02:34 -0600
      Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-14 14:03 +0000
    Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-14 12:43 +0200
  Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-13 22:15 -0700
    Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-14 15:25 +1000
      Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-13 22:41 -0700
        Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-14 21:43 +1000
          Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-14 15:28 +0300
            Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-14 22:55 +1000
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