XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Francois Beausoleil" <fbos AT users.sourceforge.net>]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:24:31 -0800, "Wolfgang Hoschek" <whoschek AT lbl.gov>
said:
>  > If it is "tail recursion", then
>  > it usually does not matter.  Optimizers can turn tail recursion (where
>  > the recursive call is the last instruction in the routine) into
>  > standard iteration.
> 
> "Usually" often does not apply to java compilers. Most java compilers 
> won't actually do tail recursion transformations. You can check this 
> yourself by running the snippet below. Tail recursion transformation 
> would rewrite the recursion into "while (true) {}". If the program 
> crashes with a StackOverflow the compiler does not do the optimization; 
> if it continues infinitely without any problem the compiler does the 
> optimization.

Thanks for the info !

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Bye !
François
Developer of Java Gui Builder
http://jgb.sourceforge.net/