• Jerry <Jerry_member pathlink.com> Aug 08 2005
• "Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle mathworks.com> Aug 08 2005

Jerry <Jerry_member pathlink.com> writes:

Hi, 
In some ML languages like Ocaml the compiler detects tail-recursions and
automatically changes it to a while loop before assembling into machine code.
Does D have this tail-recursion-optimization too?

-Jerry

"Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle mathworks.com> writes:

"Jerry" <Jerry_member pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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 Hi,
 In some ML languages like Ocaml the compiler detects tail-recursions and
 automatically changes it to a while loop before assembling into machine 
 code.
 Does D have this tail-recursion-optimization too?

 -Jerry


D the language doesn't say if a given compiler should or shouldn't detect 
tail recursion. The dmd compiler doesn't. I think the gdc compiler does - 
but I haven't actually checked.