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CONS should not CONS its arguments, part II: Cheney on the M.T.A.

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Henry G. BakerAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 30, Issue 9

Pages 17 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/214448.214454

Published: 01 September 1995 Publication History

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Previous Schemes for implementing full tail-recursion when compiling into C have required some form of "trampoline" to pop the stack. We propose solving the tail-recursion problem in the same manner as Standard ML of New Jersey, by allocating all frames in the (garbage-collected) heap. The Scheme program is translated into continuation-passing style, so the target C functions never return. The C stack pointer then becomes the allocation pointer for a Cheney-style copying garbage collection scheme. Our Scheme can use C function calls, C arguments, C variable-arity functions, and separate compilation without requiring complex block-compilation of entire programs. Our C version of the "Boyer" benchmark is available at ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/cboyer13.c.

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 30, Issue 9

Sept. 1995

48 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/214448

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