when you think about it, it's astonishing the extent to which webassembly/gc is a speculative endeavor. the main stakeholders are java and kotlin (so java times 2). dart seems noncommittal, and though scheme and ocaml are doing interesting work they don't have the resources that java does. amazing that wasm/gc has any buy-in at all, in this context
@ltratt@stephenrkell@cfbolz ok gotta be pedantic here, what is being opted into is proper tail calls, not tail call *optimization*; clang::musttail means tail calls even when -O0
@ltratt@stephenrkell@cfbolz i think in this concrete case there is no issue because it's something the programmer intends, rather than an unexpected optimization. would be weird to see a stack frame when you explicitly asked not to have one :)
my goodness, the is some serious engineering -- on using CPS and deep LLVM-fu to automatically generate an interpreter that is faster than LuaJIT's hand-coded interpreter https://sillycross.github.io/2022/11/22/2022-11-22/
two things at the same time: - probably having 2000 mastodon instances eagerly connect to a url in a toot is not ideal - ffs a web site should be able to serve thousand of copies of the same web page in less than a second, total. come on, ppl, this is embarrassing