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timow1337 on May 29, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Green Threads Explained

If loops are implemented as tail calls, doesn't the call opcode get optimized away thus preventing the reduction checker from being run?

jacquesm on May 29, 2017 [–]

It marks the point just before the call as a yield. That yield remains after optimization.

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