given that CLR supports tail call optimization I was wondering if Mono, and consequently Ironpython running on Mono has support for TCO ?
given that CLR supports tail call optimization I was wondering if Mono, and consequently
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given that CLR supports tail call optimization I was wondering if Mono, and consequently Ironpython running on Mono has support for TCO ?
I can’t give a definitive answer, but there is ample evidence in forums (e.g., here) that because Mono doesn’t use a callee-pops-arguments calling convention, it can’t (easily) support tail calls. There is a couple of unresolved bugs, here and here, indicating that F# is still waiting for this.