Re: Summer of Code Recap

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Amirouche Boubekki <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2017-08-28 20:56, Ian Price wrote:
> Apparently webkit does ship TCO and safari is the only browser [0] 
> shipping it.
> So it will happen soon enough for chrome, but chrome is not a solution 
> for many
> of us. I don't know when firefox with ship TCO.
>
> [0] https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5516876633341952

Firefox tracks tail recursion support here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723959

And I just found a JS library which turns functions into tail recursive
ones with 1-4x time overhead:

http://glat.info/pub/tailopt-js/

So it might be possible to check for recursion support and just insert
this as a fallback for browsers which do not support proper tail
recursion (i.e. by implementing it as an identity function in those
which support proper tail recursion).

Best wishes,
Arne
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