I don't have a source, but I know tail calls have been implemented (in a patch) and tested, and at the JVM Summit everyone was saying this was definitely going to be released in JVM 7. Regards, John A. De Goes N-Brain, Inc. The Evolution of Collaboration http://www.n-brain.net | 877-376-2724 x 101 On Jun 26, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Claus Reinke wrote:
JVM 7 has tail calls,
Source, please? JSR-292 seems the most likely candidate so far, and its draft doesn't seem to mention tail calls yet. As of March this year, the people working on tail calls for mlvm [1], which seems to be the experimentation ground for this, did not seem to expect any fast route:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/mlvm-dev/2009-March/000405.html
There have been years of rumours and plans, so it would be nice to have concrete details, before any fp-on-jvm implementation design starts to rely on this.
Claus