Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Thursday 02 April 2009 15:09:12 Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
>   
>> It's not necessarily Sun's choice when it exhibits external behavioral
>> changes. Such changes must be standardized so all JVMs will support
>> them. If it were just up to Sun, it would probably go in (since I know I
>> want it and several others want it).
>>     
>
> Ok. I only care about Sun's JVM because it is the defacto standard. If tail 
> calls are not adopted as a standard across all JVMs, what are the odds of Sun 
> including them just in its own JVM as an extension?
>   
why do they have to be exposed? Isn't tail recursion and implementation 
detail? And an optimization at that?

Why would others have to adopt? Not all have adopted CMS GC or survivor 
spaces?

Regards,
Kirk


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