[jvm-l] Re: Tail calls again?

[Rémi Forax]

Le 10/12/2009 15:34, Charles Oliver Nutter a écrit :
> 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,

Yes, the question at 10 dollars is what is the revision (it's near b50, 
I think).

> if people show enough interest in
> getting it to work.
>    

I prefer to see that in the dual way,
If we show how to use it, it will be used.

> - Charlie
>    

Rémi