Re:Elm: a functional reactive programming language that comp...
by wheatBread on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @11:56PM
(#3322516)
This is an important issue! I'm aware of the problem and have some ideas of how to avoid it. My compiler is not actually doing any optimization at this stage, so this will be addressed when I give this more attention.
Re:Elm: a functional reactive programming language that comp...
by pavpanchekha on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @12:39AM
(#3322628)
Keep in mind that some implementations, notably V8, do do tail call optimization; and I'm sure IonMonkey or one of its successors eventually will.
Contrived, I know, but it looks like in Firefox 8 that happens at around 39k.