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Re:Green Threads Explained by timow1337 on Monday May 29, 2017 @04:18PM (#14441194)
If loops are implemented as tail calls, doesn't the call opcode get optimized away thus preventing the reduction checker from being run?
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Re:Green Threads Explained by jacquesm on Monday May 29, 2017 @04:33PM (#14441257)
It marks the point just before the call as a yield. That yield remains after optimization.
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