[racket] Racket in a browser?

From: Hendrik Boom (hendrik at topoi.pooq.com)
Date: Tue Apr 12 22:13:30 EDT 2011

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 03:55:58PM -0400, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
> 
> I don't know what the porting effort is to get Racket to LLVM.  Would
> that affect things like tail-calls and continuations?  These are the
> things that Danny has put a lot of effort into in the Racket
> bytecode->JavaScript compiler.

Last time I looked at the LLVM spec I didn't see anything that was 
clearly specified as implementing tail-calls.  Has that changed?
On the the other hand, C-- very clearly does have tail-calls and a gc 
interface.  Too bad th eproject seems moribund.

-- hendrik


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