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dantheman
on Nov 6, 2010
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Oracle cooks up free and premium JVMs
Also tail call optimization changes the semantics of the language - it allows you to write code that would normally be incorrect
crux_
on Nov 6, 2010
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True, although you have to be careful about "incorrect": the code will still compile (unless there's some corner case I'm missing?), so for that particular definition of correctness it is just fine without TCO.
It just won't run (for very long). :)
dantheman
on Nov 7, 2010
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I agree, but compilation is a low barrier for correctness :)
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