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

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Date	Wed, 15 Jul 2015 01:14:33 +0100
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On 15/07/2015 00:40, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 13/07/2015 23:46, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>
>> Optimizing specific tail calls is tricker.  For one thing, calls to a
>> recursion-replacement function, such as recur, add a stack frame that
>> must also be popped. A CPython bytecode manimpuation solution was given
>> years ago as a recipe on the ActiveState Python Cookbook site.  MacroPy
>> at pypi.python.org "provides a mechanism for user-defined functions
>> (macros) to perform transformations on the abstract syntax tree(AST) of
>> Python code at module import time".  Among many included examples, it
>> has a tco decorator.
>>
>
> A direct link https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy#tail-call-optimization
> for anybody who is interested.
>

And I've just stumbled across this https://github.com/baruchel/tco which 
was only put up two days ago.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-07-13 14:22 +0300
  Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-13 21:47 +1000
  Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-07-13 18:46 -0400
  Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-15 00:40 +0100
  Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-15 01:14 +0100

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