Our JVM garbage collection pauses in production are literally caused by a lack of tail calls. How does the JVM not have tail calls yet?
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Replying to @runarorama
@runarorama It was asked at a conference recently. They are ummin-and-aahing over whether it would be useful.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@runarorama@dibblego what sorts of tail calls do you have? Are they to unknown continuations, or something simpler?3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @jacobstanley
@jacobstanley@runarorama@dibblego Doesn't take much, just consider chains of calls to flatMap. You blow up either the stack or the heap.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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@kmett @jacobstanley @runarorama http://web.archive.org/web/20110407025929/http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4726340 …
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