Debunking the ‘Expensive Procedure Call’ Myth; or, Procedure Call Implementations Considered Harmful; or, LAMBDA¶
Steele, G. L. (1977). Debunking the ‘Expensive Procedure Call’ Myth; or, Procedure Call Implementations Considered Harmful; or, LAMBDA: The Ultimate GOTO. Proceedings of the 1977 Annual Conference, 153-162.
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- Call Stack and Activation Records
- The guarding discipline is to bound recursion depth, prefer iteration for linear walks, and — where the language supports it — rely on tail-call optimization
This sourceExplains implementations in which a procedure call in tail position does not require accumulating an additional return frame.
- The guarding discipline is to bound recursion depth, prefer iteration for linear walks, and — where the language supports it — rely on tail-call optimization
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