Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure you can optimize it to a jump opcode when you're tail
>> calling another function can you? You could be tailcalling into a
>> closure so you'll need to use invoke to do the right thing with the
>> lexical stack etc.
>
> Argh, yes. What about:
>
> If the subroutine is constructed inside the sub, parrot sees the class
> and can decide at compile time to either jump or invoke.
>
> If the subroutine is passed in, a runtime check could be done:
>
> if sub.isa("Sub") goto do_jump
> invoke
Umm... not sure quite what you mean there. Don't forget that the sub
could be got by doing:
find_lex P0, 'sub_name'
