Status of tailc?

[Ben Evans]

Hi Tom,

My understanding of the current state of the tailc patch is that it needs
someone to care for it - that broadly the position is that it could be
officially adopted if there was sufficient community support, but that
community members would have to demonstrate some skin in the game by keeping
the patch current and canvassing support.

John: Is that a reasonably accurate representation of the state of play with
tailc?

With my LJC hat on, once the current flurry of activity has died down a bit,
encouraging and supporting interested LJC members in this kind of endeavour
is very much something we want to do more of, and we've had the early stages
of discussions about how we might try to do just that.

Thanks,

Ben

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Tom Marble <tmarble at info9.net> wrote:

> All:
>
> In searching the list I have found people asking about the
> disposition of the "tail call optimization" (tailc) patch [0],
> but I haven't seen an answer to this question...
>
> What is the status of the tailc patch?
>
> Is it now hopelessly behind the current code (or is there
> some chance it will work after manually fixing any fuzz)?
>
> Please advise,
>
> --Tom
>
> [0]
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/hotspot/file/feea77fa0d96/tailc.txt
>
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