[jvm-l] Re: Tail calls again?

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Rémi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
> I've just tested the patch named "eager", and it doesn't work out of the
> box.
> You can't apply it without modify it (at least the hotspot patch,
> I haven't tested the langtools patch because I've my own backend)
> It was written against a revision that is too old to be handled
> by the mercurial patch mechanism.
>
> Moreover, the series file doesn't show the changeset used to write
> the patch, so you can't also go backward and apply the patch to
> the old revision because you don't know it :(

That may be true, but it was a working patch against *some* revision.
It should be possible to update it, if people show enough interest in
getting it to work.

- Charlie